Molecular fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in Havana, Cuba, by IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and by the double-repetitive-element PCR method

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3099-3102

  Montoro, Ernesto ^a   Valdivia, José ^a   Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUBA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031705719     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.10.3099-3102.1998     Document Type: Article

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