Analysis of the Mycobacterium ulcerans genome sequence reveals new loci for variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) typing

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1483-1487

  Hilty, Markus ^a,c   Käser, Michael ^a   Zinsstag, Jakob ^a   Stinear, Tim ^b   Pluschke, Gerd ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LINEAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GHANA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS AGY99;

EID: 34249051747     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/004564-0     Document Type: Article

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