Mycobacterium tuberculosis ecology in Venezuela: epidemiologic correlates of common spoligotypes and a large clonal cluster defined by MIRU-VNTR-24

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis remains an endemic public health problem, but the ecology of the TB strains prevalent, and their transmission, can vary by country and by region. We sought to investigate the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in different regions of Venezuela. A previous study...

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Autores principales: Abadía, Edgar, Sequera, Monica, Ortega, Dagmarys, Méndez, María Victoria, Escalona, Arnelly, Da Mata, Omaira, Izarra, Elix, Rojas, Yeimy, Jaspe, Rossana, Motiwala, Alifiya S, Alland, David, de Waard, Jacobus, Takiff, Howard E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19660112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-122

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19660112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-122

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