The use of variable-number tandem-repeat mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing to identify laboratory cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-28

  Yan, Jing Jou ^a   Jou, Ruwen ^b   Ko, Wen Chien ^a   Wu, Jiunn Jong ^c   Yang, Mei Lin ^a   Chen, Hung Mo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross contamination; Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Variable number tandem repeat typing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ERROR; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LAMINAR FLOW; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 18944399317     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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