Discriminatory ability of hypervariable variable number tandem repeat loci in population-based analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, London, UK

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1609-1616

  Velji, Preya ^a   Nikolayevskyy, Vladyslav ^a   Brown, Timothy ^b   Drobniewski, Francis ^b,c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONDON; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 70349972801     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090463     Document Type: Article

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