A study of the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from patients in the eastern province of South Africa using random amplified polymorphic DNA profiling.

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This population genetics study was done to determine the degree of genetic diversity amongst clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in one of the largest provinces of South Africa. Three hundred and fifty-nine individual cultures were obtained from single patients over a nine-month period. Bacterial DNA was extracted and amplified with two arbitrary ten-mer primers, using the random amplified polymorphic...

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