Typing mycobacterium tuberculosis using variable number tandem repeat analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 465, Issue , 2008, Pages 371-394

  Brown, T J ^a   Nikolayevskyy, V N ^a   Drobniewski, F A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; ETR; Fragment analysis; MIRU; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Typing; VNTR

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84555218138     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-207-6_25     Document Type: Article

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