Evaluation of customised lineage-specific sets of MIRU-VNTR loci for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Asante Poku, Adwoa ^a,b,c   Nyaho, Michael Selasi ^a,d   Borrell, Sonia ^b,c   Comas, Iñaki ^e,f   Gagneux, Sebastien ^b,c   Yeboah Manu, Dorothy ^a  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^e Centre for Public Health Research   (Spain)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUNTER GASTON DISCRIMINATORY INDEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS;

GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84899784472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092675     Document Type: Article

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