Are variable-number tandem repeats appropriate for genotyping Mycobacterium leprae?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2291-2297

  Monot, Marc ^a   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Balière, Charlotte ^a   Ji, Baohong ^b   Sow, Samba ^c   Brennan, Patrick J ^d   Cole, Stewart T ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Centre National d'Appui a la Lutte Contre la Maladie   (Mali)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIODIVERSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPROSY; MALE; MALI; MARKER GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ALLELE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MALI; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 49049083696     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00239-08     Document Type: Article

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