Molecular analysis of human and bovine tubercle bacilli from a local setting in Nigeria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-34

  Cadmus, Simeon ^a   Palmer, Si ^b   Okker, Melissa ^b   Dale, James ^b   Gover, Karen ^b   Smith, Noel ^b   Jahans, Keith ^b   Hewinson, R Glyn ^b   Gordon, Stephen V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMEROON; CHILD; COW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOLIGOTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIGERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 30744433392     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.1.29-34.2006     Document Type: Article

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