Molecular genotyping of mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mie prefecture, Japan, using variable numbers of tandem repeats analysis

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-344

  Nagai, Yuhki ^a   Iwade, Yoshito ^a   Hayakawa, Eri ^b   Nakano, Manabu ^b   Sakai, Takashi ^b   Tanuma, Masamichi ^c   Katayama, Masahiko ^a   Nosaka, Tetsuya ^d   Yamaguchi, Tetsuo ^a  

^a Mie Prefectural Health and Environment Research Institute   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Mie Chuo Medical Center   (Japan)

^c Mie Prefecture Department of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 84866263621     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.65.341     Document Type: Article

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