Use of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing to study Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from East Azarbaijan Province of Iran

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 3769-3777

  Asgharzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Khakpour, Mansour ^b   Salehi, Taghi Zahraei ^c   Kafil, Hossein Samadi ^d  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; MIRU VNTR; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 36849087362     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3769.3777     Document Type: Article

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