Spoligotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of a high tuberculosis burden aboriginal township in Taiwan

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 553-557

  Chuang, Pei Chun ^a,b   Liu, Hsuan ^a   Sola, Christophe ^c,d   Chen, Yi Ming A ^b   Jou, Ruwen ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Aboriginal township; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Spoligotypes; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 50549104637     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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