Promising loci of variable numbers of tandem repeats for typing Beijing family Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Molecular genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mie Prefecture, Japan, using variable numbers of tandem repeats analysis.
The variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR) analysis is a method frequently employed as a molecular epidemiological tool for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic fingerprinting. In this study, we characterized the population of M. tuberculosis circulating in Mie Prefecture, Japan, and assessed the utility of the proposed JATA12- and 15-VNTR analyses of 158 M. tuberculosis clinical isolates ...
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*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, 666-2 Nitona, Chuo, Chiba, Chiba 260-8715, Japan. Tel: +81-43-266-6723, Fax: +81-43-265-5544, E-mail: [email protected] Tuberculosis is one of the major bacterial diseases in Japan (1). Advances in the molecular epidemiological analysis of this disease have greatly improved t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Microbiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-2615,1473-5644
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47564-0