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Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the Beijing Genotype in Iran and the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Meta-Analysis.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2000
Hoffner Sven, Sahebi Leyla, Ansarin Khalil, Sabour Siamak, Mohajeri Parviz
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OBJECTIVE: The Beijing genotype is a distinct genetic lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is distributed worldwide, and may cause large outbreaks of multidrug resistance-tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The distribution of such strains in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) is unclear, and clarifying the data is our purpose apart from the presence of Beijing TB in Iran. METHODS: We searched Published literature...
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