A First Insight on the Population Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex as Studied by Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTRs in Santiago, Chile

• María Elvira Balcells ,

  * E-mail: balcells@med.puc.cl

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Patricia García,

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Paulina Meza,

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Carlos Peña,

  Affiliation Respiratory Division and Microbiology Laboratory, Hospital San Borja Arriarán, Santiago, Chile

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• Marcela Cifuentes,

  Affiliation Respiratory Division and Microbiology Laboratory, Hospital San Borja Arriarán, Santiago, Chile

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• David Couvin,

  Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France

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• Nalin Rastogi

  Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France

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