Comparison of the capillary and agarose electrophoresis based multiple locus VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) analysis (MLVA) on Mycobacterium bovis isolates

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 172-176

  Jenkins, A O ^a   Venter, E H ^a   Hutamo, K ^a   Godfroid, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agarose electrophoresis; Capillary electrophoresis; Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis; Mycobacterium bovis genotyping

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 77956231595     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.02.036     Document Type: Article

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