Volume 11, Number 8—August 2005
Research
Spoligotyping and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Figure 1. . . Clinical and therapeutic implications of spoligotyping results in treating suspected mycobacterial diseases. AFB, acid-fast bacilli; pts, patients; MAC, Mycobacterium avium complex; TB, tuberculosis. *Twenty-five patients did not begin treatment because they did not have clinical and radiologic features of tuberculosis. Four patients died within a few days after admission without receiving any antimycobacterial drug.