Clonality and micro-diversity of a nationwide spreading genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Japan.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission routes can be estimated from genotypic analysis of clinical isolates from patients. In Japan, still a middle-incidence country of TB, a unique genotype strain designated as 'M-strain' has been isolated nationwide recently. To ascertain the history of...

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Main Authors: Takayuki Wada, Tomotada Iwamoto, Aki Tamaru, Junji Seto, Tadayuki Ahiko, Kaori Yamamoto, Atushi Hase, Shinji Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Colecção:PLoS ONE
Acesso em linha:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118495&type=printable