| characterisation of pks15/1 in clinical isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis from mexico. | tuberculosis (tb) is an infectocontagious respiratory disease caused by members of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. a 7 base pair (bp) deletion in the locus polyketide synthase (pks)15/1 is described as polymorphic among members of the m. tuberculosis complex, enabling the identification of euro-american, indo-oceanic and asian lineages. the aim of this study was to characterise this locus in tb isolates from mexico. one hundred twenty clinical isolates were recovered from the states of v ... | 2013 | 24037193 |