Evidence that the Spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains with the Beijing Genotype Is Human Population Dependent
- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 45 (7) , 2263-2266
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02354-06
Abstract
This study describes a comparative analysis of the Beijing mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit types of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Cape Town, South Africa, and East Asia. The results show a significant association between the frequency of occurrence of strains from defined Beijing sublineages and the human population from whom they were cultured ( P < 0.0001).Keywords
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