Clinical strains LAM10406 and H12425 are representative of prevalent LAM and Haarlem lineages and were obtained from sputum-culture-positive TB patients.
Single clones may give different results and may not be representative of the prevalent viruses in the quasispecies present in the corresponding isolate, and even less of the virus population circulating in vivo in the infected individual.
While focusing on a small number of communities enabled us to gain a more in-depth understanding, we recognise the limitation of generalising the findings to other parts of the country, as it may not be representative of what is prevalent in the entire population.
No RGP seemed to be representative of this latter complex, and RGP-Cy3, RGP-Cy15 and RGP-Cy17 were the most prevalent.
The isolates from Hong Kong are representative of the prevalent ST239 clone during the last two decades.
Therefore, the strains selected for the present study were representative of the most prevalent PFGE profiles from 1953 to 2004.
By contrast, a cytotoxic response towards target-cells expressing gp160MN protein (the latter being representative of the most prevalent strains in Europe and North America) or pulsed with the cA1 peptide, was observed.
Thus, strains selected are representative of the most prevalent MLST-types in each time period.
The strains selected for CGH analysis were all typed with MLVA and MLST and were representative of the most prevalent MLVA- and MLST-types from 1993 to 2004.
The centenarian rate (CR) is representative of the general longevity prevalent in a nation; it indicates the number of individuals aged 100 years or above at a given date divided by the size of the corresponding cohort of a given age.
