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Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium simiae Using Drug Susceptibility Tests and Molecular Analyses.
Current microbiology - 1 Jun 2021
Dezhkhi Hoda, Farnia Parissa, Haddadi Azam, Farnia Poopak, Velayati Ali Akbar
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium simiae is an emerging nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) and an opportunistic pathogen which is described mainly in Asia and presents in the environment that can cause pulmonary infection. The objective of this study is to characterize M. simiae clinical isolates using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable-number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing for the differentiation of the strains....
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