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GENETIC DIVERSITY OF MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE ISOLATES FROM BRAZILIAN LEPROSY PATIENTS
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Aplicada a Micobactérias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru. SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Aplicada a Micobactérias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru. SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Aplicada a Micobactérias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Abstract
Introduction Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium
leprae, an obligate intracellular parasite. A problem in studying the transmission of
leprosy is the small amount of variation in bacterial genomic DNA. The discovery of
variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) allowed the detection of strain variation
in areas with a high prevalence of leprosy. Four genotypes of M. leprae based on three
single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) were also discovered to be useful for
analysis of the global spread of leprosy.
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