Development of a hierarchical variable-number tandem repeat typing scheme for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in china

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Luo, Tao ^a   Yang, Chongguang ^a   Pang, Yu ^b   Zhao, Yanlin ^b   Mei, Jian ^c   Gao, Qian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHINA; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84896130496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089726     Document Type: Article

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