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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Formato: | Artigo |
Idioma: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Colecção: | PLoS ONE |
Acesso em linha: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118495&type=printable |