Predominance of three copies of tandem repeats in rpoT gene of Mycobacterium leprae from Northern India

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 627-631

  Lavania, Mallika ^a   Katoch, Kiran ^a   Singh, Haribhan ^a   Das, Ram ^a   Gupta, Anuj Kumar ^a   Sharma, Rahul ^a   Chauhan, Devendra Singh ^a   Sharma, Vishnu Dutt ^a   Sachan, Pawan ^a   Sachan, Shailendra ^a   Katoch, Vishwa Mohan ^a  

^a NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Leprosy; Mycobacterium leprae; Northern India; rpoT

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RPOT; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BASE PAIRING; BIOPSY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SIGMA FACTOR; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 34548308643     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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