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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
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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 conducted to identify the circulating M. tuberculosis strains belonging to different lineages among pulmonary tuberculosis...
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