Assessment of an optimized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit- variable-number tandem-repeat typing system combined with spoligotyping for population-based molecular epidemiology studies of tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 691-697

  Oelemann, Mara Cardoso ^a,b,g   Diel, Roland ^c   Vatin, Vincent ^b,d   Haas, Walter ^e   Rüsch Gerdes, Sabine ^f   Locht, Camille ^a,b   Niemann, Stefan ^f   Supply, Philip ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33947231744     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01393-06     Document Type: Article

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