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Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreading in Hanoi, Vietnam using conventional and whole genome sequencing methods.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2020
Maeda Shinji, Hijikata Minako, Hang Nguyen Thi Le, Thuong Pham Huu, Huan Hoang Van, Hoang Nguyen Phuong, Hung Nguyen Van, Cuong Vu Cao, Miyabayashi Akiko, Seto Shintaro, Keicho Naoto
Abstract excerpt
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, one of the 30 countries with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden. Fundamental data on the molecular epidemiology of the disease is required for future TB management. To identify lineages and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), conventional genotyping data from clinical isolates of the Hanoi area was compared with whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis from 332 of 470...
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