GeneticdiversityoftheMycobacteriumtuberculosis Beijing family inEastAsia revealed through re¢nedpopulation structureanalysis
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GeneticdiversityoftheMycobacteriumtuberculosis Beijing family inEastAsia revealed through re¢nedpopulation structureanalysis Takayuki Wada, Tomotada Iwamoto & Shinji Maeda Department of Microbiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka, Japan; Department of Microbiology, Kobe Institute of Health, Kobe, Japan; and Molecular Epidemiology Division, Mycobacterium Reference Center, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Tokyo, Japan
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