Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat analysis, a more accurate method for identifying epidemiological links between patients with tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4473-4479

  Van Deutekom, Henk ^a   Supply, Philip ^b   De Haas, Petra E W ^c   Willery, Eve ^b   Hoijng, Susan P ^a   Locht, Camille ^b   Coutinho, Roel A ^a,d   Van Soolingen, Dick ^c  

^a MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 24744462084     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4473-4479.2005     Document Type: Article

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