Sensitivities and specificities of spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing methods for studying molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-94

  Scott, Allison N ^a   Menzies, Dick ^a,b   Tannenbaum, Terry Nan ^a,c   Thibert, Louise ^d   Kozak, Robert ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^a   Schwartzman, Kevin ^a,b   Behr, Marcel A ^a,e,f  

^a Dept of Epidemiol and Biostatist ^*  (Canada)

^b Respiratory Epidemiology Unit   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ERROR; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIRU VNTR; MYCOBACTERIUM; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPOLIGOTYPING; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 11844252652     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.89-94.2005     Document Type: Article

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