Evaluation of the epidemiologic utility of secondary typing methods for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2683-2685

  Kwara, Awewura ^b,e   Schiro, Ronald ^c   Cowan, Lauren S ^d   Hyslop, Newton E ^b   Wiser, Mark F ^a   Harrison, Stephanie Roahen ^a   Kissinger, Patricia ^a   Diem, Lois ^d   Crawford, Jack T ^d  

^a Department of Tropical Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Pathology   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MYCOBACTERIAL INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE UNIT VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOLIGOTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037842783     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.6.2683-2685.2003     Document Type: Article

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