Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using nine novel variable-number tandem repeats across the Beijing family and low-copy-number IS6110 isolates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4224-4230

  Spurgiesz, R Scott ^a   Quitugua, Teresa N ^b   Smith, Kimothy L ^a,c   Schupp, James ^a   Palmer, Eldon G ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^b   Keim, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

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

EID: 0041919402     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4224-4230.2003     Document Type: Article

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