Discrimination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria using novel VNTR-PCR targets

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 519-528

  Skuce, Robin A ^a   McCorry, Thomas P ^a   McCarroll, Julie F ^a   Roring, Solvig M M ^a   Scott, Alistair N ^a   Brittain, David ^a   Hughes, Stephen L ^a   Hewinson, R Glyn ^a   Neill, Sydney D ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium bovis; Spoligotyping; Tandem repeat DNA

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DNA; GLYCINE;

ALLELE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

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

EID: 0036180137     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-2-519     Document Type: Article

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