Characterisation of short tandem repeats for genotyping Mycobacterium leprae

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 250-260

  Gillis, Thomas ^a   Vissa, Varalakshmi ^b   Matsuoka, Masanori ^c   Young, Saroj ^d   Richardus, Jan Hendrik ^e   Truman, Richard ^a   Hall, Barry ^f   Brennan, Patrick ^b  

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

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Bellingham Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; DNA MINISATELLITE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 73249117568     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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