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Comparison of DNA fingerprint patterns of isolates of Mycobacterium africanum from east and west Africa.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 1997
Haas W H, Bretzel G, Amthor B, Schilke K, Krommes G, Rüsch-Gerdes S, Sticht-Groh V, Bremer H J
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium africanum is a pathogen found in tuberculosis patients in certain parts of Africa and is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Biochemically, strains of M. africanum exhibit a high degree of variability, with some tendency to cluster according to their geographical origin. To investigate whether this phenotypic variability is reflected at the genetic level, we performed DNA fingerprint...
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