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Original Article

Differential carriage of virulence-associated loci in the New Zealand Rangipo outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Pages 680-688 | Received 27 Dec 2016, Accepted 10 May 2017, Published online: 23 May 2017

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