Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and recent developments in understanding the epidemiology of tuberculosis

Respirology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-319

  Nguyen, Link N ^a   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b   Marks, Guy B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research NSW Health Pathology   (Australia)

^c WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism; Molecular epidemiology; Molecular typing; Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable number tandem repeat analysis; Spoligotyping; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 6044240645     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2004.00603.x     Document Type: Review

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