Identification and comparison of Mycobacterium leprae genotypes in two geographical regions of Colombia

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-321

  Cardona Castro, Nora ^a   Beltrán Alzate, Juan Camilo ^a   Romero Montoya, Irma Marcela ^a   Meléndez, Esperanza ^b   Torres, Fernando ^c   Sakamuri, Rama Murthy ^d   Li, Wei ^d   Vissa, Varalakshmi ^d  

^a Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical   (Colombia)

^b ESE Hospital General de Barranquilla   (Colombia)

^c Sanatorio Agua de Dios ESE   (Colombia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLOMBIA; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEPROSY; LEPROSY EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; SLIT SKIN SMEAR; SMEAR; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

COLOMBIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 73249134114     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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