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Epidemiology characteristics of the clonal complexes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 4 in China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2020
Ni Xumin, Zhu Chendi, Li Qing, Jiang Hui, Liu Jingyi, Chen Zhi, He Li, Jia Junnan, Zhang Zongde, Ma Liang, Li Weimin
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) Lineage 4 (L4) is frequently prevailing in Western regions of China, where the tuberculosis incidence rate is high. However, the epidemiology characteristics of M. tuberculosis L4 in China remain poorly understood. Here, the 15-loci Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) patterns of 975 L4 isolates from a National Survey of Tuberculosis in China were used to...
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