DNA profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and the detection of a high level of genetic diversity

Electrophoresis

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1800-1806

  Richner, Sharon ^a   Meiring, Jill ^b   Kirby, Ralph ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SAIMR   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; DNA profiling; Genetic diversity; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; DNA;

ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR VARIANCES; ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE; DNA PROFILING; GENETICS DIVERSITIES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHIC DNA; RANDOMLY AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AND RURAL;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; THIOACETAZONE;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033031750     PISSN: 01730835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2683(19990101)20:8<1800::AID-ELPS1800>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Conference Paper

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