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Large Sequence Polymorphisms Classify <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Strains with Ancestral Spoligotyping Patterns

Laura Flores, Trần Thị Thanh Vân, Sujatha Narayanan, Kathryn DeRiemer, Midori Kato‐Maeda, Sébastien Gagneux

Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2007 · 61 citations · 21 references

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Genomic deletion analysis revealed that strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibiting spoligotyping patterns with almost all spacers present belong either to a strain lineage that includes the W-Beijing strain family or to the ancestral strain lineage of M. tuberculosis.

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