Usefulness of variable numbers of tandem repeats typing in clinical strains of Mycobacterium avium

Kekkaku

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 559-566

  Moriyama, Makoto ^a,b   Ogawa, Kenji ^b   Nishimori, Kei ^c   Uchiya, Keiichi ^a   Ito, Tetsuya ^b   Yagi, Tetsuya ^d   Nakashima, Ikkou ^d   Nakagawa, Taku ^b   Tarumi, Osamu ^b   Nikai, Toshiaki ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Higashi Nagoya National Hospital   (Japan)

^c National Institute of Animal Health

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

IS1245; Mycobacterium avium; Polyclonal infection; RFLP typing; VNTR typing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34247239963     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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