Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex CRISPR genotyping: improving efficiency, throughput and discriminative power of 'spoligotyping' with new spacers and a microbead-based hybridization assay

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Molecular Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Different Regions of Bulgaria

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Discordance between Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive-Unit-Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Typing and IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Genotyping for Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains in a Setting of High Incidence of Tuberculosis

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Evolution and Diversity of Clonal Bacteria: The Paradigm of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Eliminating human tuberculosis in the twenty-first century

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CRISPR — a widespread system that provides acquired resistance against phages in bacteria and archaea

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