HIV/AIDS-Tuberculosis Coinfection
No particular MTB or M. avium clones prevail in HIV-infected persons in Japan
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 28th, 2006
In a recent study, researchers in Japan conducted a study "to assess DNA polymorphisms in mycobacterial isolates obtained from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive patients with tuberculosis in Japan from 1996 to 2003.
"Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium isolates obtained from individual seropositive patients with tuberculosis (n=78) were analyzed with the use of IS6110 and (CGG)(5) or IS 1245 and IS 1311, respectively, as...
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