Country-wide rapid screening for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing sublineage in Ecuador using a single-nucleotide polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction method.

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Background: Strains of the Beijing sublineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have caused large outbreaks of tuberculosis, often involving multidrug resistance strains and this genetically highly conserved family of strains predominates in some geographic areas. For most of the countries of Latin America, no country-wide studies about the prevalence of the Beijing lineage are available. Methods: In this study, we...

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