Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Sicily based on spoligotyping and variable number of tandem DNA repeats and comparison with a spoligotyping database for population-based analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1559-1565

  Sola, C ^a   Ferdinand, S ^a   Mammina, C ^a   Nastasi, A ^a   Rastogi, N ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SICILY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

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

EID: 0035063367     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.4.1559-1565.2001     Document Type: Article

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