Promising loci of variable numbers of tandem repeats for typing Beijing family Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 873-880

  Murase, Yoshiro ^a   Mitarai, Satoshi ^a   Sugawara, Isamu ^a   Kato, Seiya ^a   Maeda, Shinji ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 48949084041     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47564-0     Document Type: Article

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