An IS 6110-targeting fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism alternative to IS 6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis for Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA fingerprinting

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 964-970

  Thorne, N ^a   Evans, J T ^b   Smith, E G ^b   Hawkey, P M ^b   Gharbia, S ^a   Arnold, Catherine ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis; Fluorescent AFLP analysis; IS6110; Molecular typing; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; RFLP; Typing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34548541314     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01783.x     Document Type: Article

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