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The Epidemiological Significance and Temporal Stability of Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number of Tandem Repeats-Based Method Applied to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China.
International journal of environmental research and public health - 17 Apr 2018
Li Yang, Hu Yi, Mansjö Mikael, Zhao Qi, Jiang Weili, Ghebremichael Solomon, Hoffner Sven, Xu Biao
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to validate the epidemiological significance and temporal stability of Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing in a genetically and geographically diverse set of clinical isolates from patients diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in China. Between 2010 and 2013, a total of 982 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were collected from four...
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