Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1189-1196

  Frothingham, Richard ^a,b   Meeker O'Connell, Winifred A ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial strain differentiation; BCG vaccine; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tandem repeat DNA; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031750390     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1189     Document Type: Article

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