Genomic Deletions Suggest a Phylogeny for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
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...From these 16 regions of difference (RD1-16) only RD1 is absent from all BCG strains thus far tested (Mostowy et al., 2002; Tekaia et al., 1999; Brosch et al., 2002)....
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...Nearly all these samples had been genotyped previously by restriction fragment–length polymorphism (RFLP) [14, 15], using the molecular epidemiologic markers IS6110 [16] (63 of 66 isolates), polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS) [17] (58 of 66 isolates), and direct repeat (DR) [18] (54 of 66 isolates), and by spoligotyping [19, 20] (64 of 66 isolates)....
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...are expected to represent unidirectional genetic events [7, 12],...
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...[7] documented that BCG-specific deletions superimpose perfectly on D ow naded rom http/academ ic....
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