Tuberculosis transmission in Northwest of Iran: Using MIRU-VNTR, ETR-VNTR and IS6110-RFLP methods

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-131

  Asgharzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Kafil, Hossein Samadi ^b   Roudsary, Ali Amoghi ^c   Hanifi, Gholam Reza ^d  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d North west Branch (Payam Marand)   (Iran)

Author keywords

ETR VNTR; IS6110; MIRU VNTR; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Reactivation; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

HUMANS; IRAN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78650197382     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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