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Spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates at a tertiary care hospital in India.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Jun 2017
Suzana Shirly, Shanmugam Sivakumar, Uma Devi K R, Swarna Latha P N, Michael Joy S
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OBJECTIVE: Spoligotyping is a valuable genotyping tool to study the genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb). The aim of this study was to analyse different spoligotype patterns of M. tb strains isolated from patients with tuberculosis from different parts of India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 163 M. tb isolates were spoligotyped between January 2014 and January...
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