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SUBMITTER: Frothingham R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC263747 | biostudies-other | 1994 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Frothingham R R Hills H G HG Wilson K H KH
Journal of clinical microbiology 19940701 7
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex includes the four species M. tuberculosis, M. bovis, M. africanum, and M. microti. We sequenced 13 M. tuberculosis complex strains in the 16S-to-23S rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS). The ITS has a high rate of nucleotide substitution. Previous reports found three nucleotide substitutions in the ITS between two M. tuberculosis complex strains. In contrast, we found the same ITS sequence in all 13 M. tuberculosis complex strains (including all four spec ...[more]