Identification and evolution of an IS6110 low-copy-number Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 641-649

  Mathema, Barun ^a   Bifani, Pablo J ^a   Driscoll, Jeffrey ^b   Steinlein, Lauren ^c   Kurepina, Natalia ^a   Moghazeh, Soraya L ^a   Shashkina, Elena ^a   Marras, Salvatore A ^a   Campbell, Shannon ^d   Mangura, Bonita ^e   Shilkret, Kenneth ^f   Crawford, Jack T ^c   Frothingham, Richard ^g   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Isosceles Information Solutions ^*  (Canada)

^e RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

^g DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0036498747     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339345     Document Type: Article

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