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Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Dispatch

Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Holstein Friesian Cattle, Iran

Keyvan Tadayon, Nader Mosavari, Fardin Sadeghi, and Ken J. ForbesComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (K. Tadayon, K.J. Forbes); Hesarak Institute, Karaj, Iran (K. Tadayon, N. Mosavari); Iranian Veterinary Organisation, Tehran, Iran (F. Sadeghi);

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Figure 1

Spoligoprofiles of Iranian isolates and dendrogram of profile relatedness by the Dice and unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean and previously published locations of profiles. The three spoligotypes from Iran were previously reported by Cousins et al. (10).

Figure 1. Spoligoprofiles of Iranian isolates and dendrogram of profile relatedness by the Dice and unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean and previously published locations of profiles. The three spoligotypes from Iran were previously reported by Cousins et al. (10).

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