Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections: Main methodologies and achievements

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-26

  Van Soolingen, Dick ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Epidemiology; Mycobacterium; Transmission; Tuberculosis; Typing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; CONTACT TRACING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0035134502     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2001.00772.x     Document Type: Review

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292. Molecular cloning of a highly repeated DNA element from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its use as an epidemiological tool
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294. Genotypic characterization of live subspecies of Mycobacterium kansasii
295. Identification of an insertion sequence-like element in a subspecies of Mycobacterium kansasii
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297. Large-restriction-fragment analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii genomic DNA and its application in molecular typing
298. Rapid identification of mycobacteria to the species level by polymerase chain reaction and restriction enzyme analysis
299. Identification and characterization of IS-like elements in Mycobacterium gordonae
300. Mycobacterium xenopi IS1395: A novel insertion sequence expanding the IS256 family
301. DNA large restriction fragment patterns of sporadic and epidemic nosocomial strains of Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium abscessus
302. Abscesses due to Mycobacterium abscessus linked to injection of unapproved alternative medication
303. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR for comparison of Mycobacterium abscessus strains from nosocomial outbreaks
304. Long-term laboratory contamination by Mycobacterium abscessus resulting in two pseudo-outbreaks: Recognition with use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) polymerase chain reaction
305. Random amplified polymorphic DNA genotyping of Mycobacterium malmoense
306. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium haemophilum
307. Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence
308. New insertion sequences and a novel repeated sequence in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
309. IS611O transposition and evolutionary scenario of the direct repeat locus in a group of closely related Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains
310. Characterization of an IS-like element from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
311. Using oligonucleotide probe arrays to access genetic diversity
312. Simultaneous genotyping and species identification using hybridization pattern recognition analysis of generic Mycobacterium DNA arrays