Stability of Polymorphic GC-Rich Repeat Sequence-Containing Regions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1302-1304

  Richardson, Madalene ^a,b   Van Der Spuy, Gian D ^a   Sampson, Samantha L ^a,c   Beyers, Nulda ^a   Van Helden, Paul D ^a   Warren, Robin M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Harvard School of Public Health ^*  (South Africa)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PGRS RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM MOTIF; POLYMORPHIC GUANINE CYTOSINE RICH REPEAT SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUANINE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 1542409031     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.3.1302-1304.2004     Document Type: Article

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