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The Epidemiological Characteristics of Beijing Lineage Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a National Referral Center in China.
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES - 1 Jul 2015
Li Xiao Ying, Li Ying, Zhang Yao, Kang Wan Li, Zhao Li Ping, Ding Peng Ju, Dai Wen Tao, Huang Hai Rong, Huang Yan Feng, Li Wei Min
Abstract excerpt
Our study was to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of M.tuberculosis from a national tuberculosis referral center in China. All strains isolated from TB patients, were genotyped by the RD105 deletion, 8 and 51 SNP loci and VNTR. The high differentiation SNPs of modern Beijing strains were analyzed for protein function and structure. 413 M. tuberculosis were included. Of 379 Beijing lineage M....
Topics
- China
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genome, Bacterial
- Hospitals, Chronic Disease
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Phylogeny
- Phylogeography
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Tuberculosis