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SUBMITTER: Takii T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731343 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takii Takemasa T Seki Kouhei K Wakabayashi Yasutaka Y Morishige Yuta Y Sekizuka Tsuyoshi T Yamashita Akifumi A Kato Kengo K Uchimura Kazuhiro K Ohkado Akihiro A Keicho Naoto N Mitarai Satoshi S Kuroda Makoto M Kato Seiya S
Scientific reports 20190906 1
We investigated the lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates from the RYOKEN study in Japan in 2007 and the usefulness of genotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) using the Genome Research for Asian Tuberculosis (GReAT) database. In total, 667 isolates were classified into lineage 1 (4.6%), lineage 2 (0.8%), lineage 2/Beijing (72.1%), lineage 3 (0.5%), and lineage 4 (22.0%). The nationality, gender, and age groups associated with the isolates assigned to lineage 1 were significan ...[more]