Article
Circulating strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: 24 loci MIRU-VNTR analysis in Bangladesh.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2020
Rizvi S M Shahriar, Tarafder Shirin, Anwar Shaheda, Perdigão João, Johora Fatima Tuj, Sattar Humayun, Kamal S M Mostofa
Abstract excerpt
Bangladesh is among the high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). As the genetic diversity and distinct phylogeographic distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are responsible for regional differences in drug resistance, this cross sectional study was con...
Topics
- Bangladesh
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genotyping Techniques
- Humans
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis