Investigation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity in China and the origin of the Beijing clade.

Investigation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity in China and the origin of the Beijing clade.

<h4>Background</h4>Investigation of the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China has shown that Beijing genotype strains play a dominant role in the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. In order to examine the strain diversity in the whole country, and to study the evolutionary de...

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Main Authors: Kanglin Wan, Jinghua Liu, Yolande Hauck, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jie Liu, Xiuqin Zhao, Zhiguang Liu, Bing Lu, Haiyan Dong, Yi Jiang, Kristin Kremer, Gilles Vergnaud, Dick van Soolingen, Christine Pourcel
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22220207/?tool=EBI

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