Clonal Expansion of Both Modern and Ancient Genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Southern Taiwan

• Jia-Ru Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Ru Chang, Yih-Yuan Chen, Tsi-Shu Huang, Fan-Chen Tseng

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Yih-Yuan Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Ru Chang, Yih-Yuan Chen, Tsi-Shu Huang, Fan-Chen Tseng

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Tsi-Shu Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Ru Chang, Yih-Yuan Chen, Tsi-Shu Huang, Fan-Chen Tseng

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Wei-Feng Huang,

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Shu-Chen Kuo,

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Fan-Chen Tseng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Ru Chang, Yih-Yuan Chen, Tsi-Shu Huang, Fan-Chen Tseng

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Ih-Jen Su,

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Chien-Hsing Lin,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine , National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan

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• Yao-Shen Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Jun-Ren Sun,

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tzong-Shi Chiueh,

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Horng-Yunn Dou

  * E-mail: hydou@nhri.org.tw

  Affiliations National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli, Taiwan, School of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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