Impact of homoplasy on variable numbers of tandem repeats and spoligotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 811-818

  Reyes, Josephine F ^a,b   Chan, Carmen H S ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

DR locus; Homoplasy; Minisatellites; MIRU; Spoligotyping; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HOMOPLASY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SPOLIGOTYPING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84859884558     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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