Implementation of a consensus set of hypervariable mycobacterial interspersed Repetitive-Unit-Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 478-482

  Trovato, Alberto ^a   Tafaj, Silva ^b   Battaglia, Simone ^a   Alagna, Riccardo ^a   Bardhi, Donika ^b   Kapisyzi, Perlat ^b   Bala, Silvana ^b   Haldeda, Migena ^b   Borroni, Emanuele ^a   Hafizi, Hasan ^b   Cirillo, Daniela Maria ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER MOTHER TERESA   (Albania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOLIGOTYPING; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC KIT; GENETIC MARKER;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84956660217     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02945-15     Document Type: Article

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