Effect of study design and setting on tuberculosis clustering estimates using Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR): A systematic review

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mears, Jessica ^a   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a,b,c   Cohen, Theodore ^d   McHugh, Timothy D ^a   Sonnenberg, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; STUDY DESIGN; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84921926522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005636     Document Type: Article

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