Mixed infection and clonal representativeness of a single sputum sample in tuberculosis patients from a penitentiary hospital in Georgia

BACKGROUND: Studies on recurrent tuberculosis (TB), TB molecular epidemiology and drug susceptibility testing rely on the analysis of one Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate from a single sputum sample collected at different disease episodes. This scheme rests on the postulate that a culture of one s...

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Autores principales: Shamputa, Isdore C, Jugheli, Levan, Sadradze, Nikoloz, Willery, Eve, Portaels, Françoise, Supply, Philip, Rigouts, Leen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16846493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-7-99

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16846493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-7-99

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