Distinct genotypic profiles of the two major clades of Mycobacterium africanum

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vasconcellos, Sidra E G ^a   Huard, Richard C ^b   Niemann, Stefan ^c   Kremer, Kristin ^d   Santos, Adalberto R ^a   Suffys, Philip N ^a   Ho, John L ^e  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77952278455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-80     Document Type: Article

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