Evolution of some variable-number tandem repeat loci among a group of Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 498-501

  Billamas, Pamaree ^a   Smittipat, Nat ^a   Juthayothin, Tada ^a   Thong On, Arunee ^a   Yamada, Norio ^c   Yanai, Hideki ^c   Palittapongarnpim, Prasit ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b Mahidol University ^*  (Thailand)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beijing strains; Evolution; IS6110 RFLP; Tuberculosis; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; GENE LOCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 35348841489     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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