Genetic polymorphism among Myocobacterium leprae strins from Northern India, by using TTC repeats [2]

Indian Journal of Leprosy

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-65

  Lavania, M ^a   Katoch, V M ^a   Singh, H B ^a   Das, Ram ^a   Sharma, V D ^a   Chauhan, D S ^a   Natrajan, M ^a   Katoch, Kiran ^a  

^a NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; LEPROSY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; TANDEM REPEAT;

EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 17644363360     PISSN: 02549395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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