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Draft Genome Sequences of Two Extensively Drug-Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Belonging to the
Lesibana A Malinga1, Thomas Abeel2, Christopher A Desjardins3
1South African Medical Research Council TB Platform, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa lesibana.malinga@mrc.ac.za.
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|March 5, 2016
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We report the whole-genome sequencing of two extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strains belonging to the Euro-American S lineage. The RSA 114 strain showed single-nucleotide polymorphisms predicted to have drug efflux activity.
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