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Rosa Sloot1, Martien W Borgdorff, Jessica L de Beer, Jakko van Ingen, Philip Supply, Dick van Soolingen.
Abstract
The population structure of 3,776 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was determined using variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing. The degree of clonality was so high that a more relaxed definition of clustering cannot be applied. Among recent immigrants with non-Euro-American isolates, transmission is overestimated if based on identical VNTR patterns.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23658260 PMCID: PMC3697710 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00489-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948