Evaluation of 24 locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Canada

Tuberculosis

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-38

  Christianson, Sara ^a   Wolfe, Joyce ^a   Orr, Pamela ^b   Karlowsky, James ^c   Levett, Paul N ^d   Horsman, Greg B ^d   Thibert, Louise ^e   Tang, Patrick ^f,g   Sharma, Meenu K ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory   (Canada)

^e INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^f BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Genotyping; MIRU VNTR; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Spoligotyping

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CELL SUSPENSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA STRUCTURE; EVALUATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIAL INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE UNIT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CANADA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 75149174206     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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