Current methods in the molecular typing of mycobacterium tuberculosis and other Mycobacteria

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jagielski, Tomasz ^a   Van Ingen, Jakko ^b   Rastogi, Nalin ^c   Dziadek, Jarosław ^d   Mazur, Paweł K ^e   Bielecki, Jacek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GC RICH SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION SITE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84893421624     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/645802     Document Type: Review

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