Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ontario, Canada: Insights from IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat genotyping

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2651-2654

  Alexander, David C ^a   Guthrie, Jennifer L ^a   Pyskir, Daria ^a   Maki, Anne ^a   Kurepina, Natalia ^b   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^b   Chedore, Pamela ^a   Drews, Steven J ^a   Jamieson, Frances ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ONTARIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 68549133198     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01946-08     Document Type: Article

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