Penitentiary population of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan: Exceptionally high prevalence of the Beijing genotype and its Russia-specific subtype
- 1 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Infection, Genetics and Evolution
- Vol. 9 (6) , 1400-1405
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2009.07.007
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