Admixed phylogenetic distribution of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia.

<h4>Background</h4>The phylogeographical structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is generally bimodal in low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries, where genetic lineages of the isolates generally differ with little strain clustering between autochthonous and foreign-born TB patients. Ho...

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Main Authors: Bright Varghese, Philip Supply, Caroline Allix-Béguec, Mohammed Shoukri, Ruba Al-Omari, Mais Herbawi, Sahal Al-Hajoj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23383340/?tool=EBI