Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium leprae isolates from Brazilian leprosy patients

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-315

  Fontes, Amanda Nogueira Brum ^a   Sakamuri, Rama Murthy ^b   Baptista, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias ^c   Ura, Somei ^c   Moraes, Milton Ozório ^a   Martínez, Alejandra Nóbrega ^a   Sarno, Euzenir Nunes ^a   Brennan, Patrick J ^b   Vissa, Varalakshmi D ^b   Suffys, Philip Noel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

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

^c INSTITUTO LAURO DE SOUZA LIMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; BRAZIL; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 73249151298     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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