Strain typing of mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from korea by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats

Korean Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 314-319

  Yun, Kyung Won ^a,b   Song, Eun Ju ^b   Choi, Go Eun ^b   Hwang, In Kyung ^c   Lee, Eun Yup ^b   Chang, Chulhun L ^b,d  

^a Busan St Mary's Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine ^*  (South Korea)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

MIRU VNTR; Molecular strain typing; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH KOREA; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 73349088730     PISSN: 15986535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/kjlm.2009.29.4.314     Document Type: Article

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