Draft genome sequence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain CWCFVRF MDRTB 670, isolated from the sputum of a patient from Chennai, India, with clinically suspected tuberculosis

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Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lakshmipathy, Dhanurekha ^a   Vetrivel, Umashankar ^a   Irudayam, Lily Therese ^a   Ramasubban, Gayathri ^a   Madhavan, H N ^a   Sridhar, R ^b   Meenakshi, N ^c  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b STANLEY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Hospital for Thoracic Medicine   (India)

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EID: 84999208613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00475-14     Document Type: Article

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