A novel approach to automated genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a panel of 15 MIRU VNTRs

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 239-241

  Matsumoto, Tomoshige ^a   Koshii, Yuriko ^a   Sakane, Kazu ^a   Murakawa, Tomomi ^a   Hirayama, Yukio ^a   Yoshida, Hisako ^a   Kurokawa, Masashi ^a   Tamura, Yoshitaka ^a   Nagai, Takayuki ^a   Kawase, Ichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic calling; Automated genotyping; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; QIAxcel; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84877155832     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.03.022     Document Type: Article

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