VNTR typing of Mycobacterium leprae in South Indian leprosy patients

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 290-301

  Shinde, Vidyagouri ^a   Newton, Hema ^b   Sakamuri, Rama Murthy ^c   Reddy, Venkateshwar ^a   Jain, Suman ^a   Joseph, Abraham ^b   Gillis, Tom ^d   Nath, Indira ^a   Norman, Gift ^b   Vissa, Varalakshmi ^c  

^a LEPRA Society   (India)

^b Schieffelin Institute of Health Research & Training   (India)

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

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SLIT SKIN SMEAR; SMEAR; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249116551     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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