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Scientists Decode Genomes of Diverse TB Isolates

First look at genome of extensively drug resistant TB

November 20, 2007

Nicole Davis
Broad Institute

An international collaboration led by researchers in the US and South Africa today announced the first genome sequence of an extensively drug resistant (XDR) strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one linked to more than 50 deaths in a recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

 

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