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Phylogenetic assignment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing clinical isolates in Japan by maximum a posteriori estimation.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2015
Seto Junji, Wada Takayuki, Iwamoto Tomotada, Tamaru Aki, Maeda Shinji, Yamamoto Kaori, Hase Atsushi, Murakami Koichi, Maeda Eriko, Oishi Akira, Migita Yuji, Yamamoto Taro, Ahiko Tadayuki
Abstract excerpt
Intra-species phylogeny of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been regarded as a clue to estimate its potential risk to develop drug-resistance and various epidemiological tendencies. Genotypic characterization of variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR), a standard tool to ascertain transmission routes, has been improving as a public health effort, but determining phylogenetic information from those efforts alone is...
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