Prospects for molecular epidemiology of leprosy

Leprosy Review

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-17

  Young, Douglas ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; LEPROSY; LEPROSY EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REINFECTION; RELAPSE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEPROSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037347611     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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