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Variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype and molecular phenotype influence clinical phenotype of Pulmonary tuberculosis and Tuberculous Meningitis infection in host
2020-11-09
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, we investigated tissue specific colonization and virulence characteristics of two different Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) clinical isolates derived from patients with Pulmonary TB (PTB) and Tuberculous Meningitis (TBM). We retrospectively studied a total of 1458 patients diagnosed with TB between 2003 and 2013. Of these, archived sputum and CSF samples were available for 323 TBM and 157 PT...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 82ad502d-fd7e-5714-b2c1-6da86690f11e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.05.20225789
