Methods used in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 694-704

  Mostrom P ^a   Gordon, M ^a   Sola, C ^b   Ridell, M ^a   Rastogi, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036853723     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00460.x     Document Type: Review

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