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Genomic diversity in Mycobacterium leprae isolates from leprosy cases in South India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2016
Das Madhusmita, Chaitanya V Sundeep, Kanmani K, Rajan Lakshmi, Ebenezer Mannam
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OBJECTIVE: The Objective of this study was to identify the strain diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in terms of SNP types and subtypes stratified as per genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms, in clinical isolates of leprosy patients from a tertiary care leprosy center in South India. Further, the associations of SNP types with clinical outcomes in leprosy were also investigated. METHODS: DNA was extracted from...
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