Use of cluster-graphs from spoligotyping data to study genotype similarities and a comparison of three indices to quantify recent tuberculosis transmission among culture positive cases in French Guiana during a eight year period

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guernier, Vanina ^a   Sola, Christophe ^b,c,d   Brudey, Karine ^b,e   Guégan, Jean François ^a   Rastogi, Nalin ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Unite de la Tuberculose et des Mycobacteries   (Guadeloupe)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKER GENE; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FRENCH GUIANA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 43549091823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-46     Document Type: Article

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