Modern and ancestral genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Andhra Pradesh, India.

Traditionally, the distribution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in India has been characterized by widespread prevalence of ancestral lineages (TbD1+ strains and variants) in the south and the modern forms (TbD1(-) CAS and variants) predominating in the north of India. The pattern was, h...

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Main Authors: Shirly K Thomas, Chitra C Iravatham, Bottu Heleena Moni, Ashutosh Kumar, Bandaru V Archana, Mohammad Majid, Yerra Priyadarshini, Pittu Sandhya Rani, Vijayalakshmi Valluri, Seyed E Hasnain, Niyaz Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3219672?pdf=render