Genetic relatedness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains obtained from Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria using Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing
Every year close to 9 million people contract tuberculosis (TB) and approximately 2 million die from the disease. The highest number of TB cases is in Asia while Africa has the highest incidence rates due to high rates of HIV and malnutrition that weakens the immune systems and speeds up the spre...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31520 Bulane, A 2012-12-14, Genetic relatedness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains obtained from Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria using Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing, MSc Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31520> http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12132012-155536/ |