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Distribution of molecular strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an intermediate burden Asia Pacific city.
Epidemiology and infection - 19 May 2021
Lee Shui Shan, Chan Denise Pui Chung, Wong Ngai Sze, Lui Grace Chung Yan, To Kin Wang, Kam Joseph Kai Man
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Hong Kong is an intermediate tuberculosis (TB) burden city in Asia Pacific with slow decline of case notification in the last decade. By 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable number of tandem repeats genotyping, we examined 534 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected from culture-positive hospitalised TB patients in a 1.7 million population geographic region in the city. Overall,...
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