Spoligotyping and polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequence fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains having few copies of IS6110

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3572-3576

  Yang, Z H ^a   Ijaz, K ^a   Bates, J H ^a   Eisenach, K D ^a   Cave, M D ^a  

^a CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

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

EID: 0033774439     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.10.3572-3576.2000     Document Type: Article

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