Like in most developing countries, tuberculosis represents a major public health problem in Morocco. This paper describes the first study combining molecular and conventional epidemiology of tuberculosis in Casablanca, the economic capital of this country. Molecular fingerprinting of the genomic DNA recovered from cultures of sputum of 150 patients was performed by MIRU-VNTR. This molecular mar...

In industrialized countries the majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases are linked to immigration. In Finland, most cases are still Finnish born but the number of foreign born cases is steadily increasing. In this 4-year population based study, the TB situation in Finland was characterized by a genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. A total of 1048 M. tuberculosis isolates (repr...

The tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in Brussels-Capital Region is 3-fold higher than in Belgium as a whole. Eight years after the realization of initial prospective population-based molecular epidemiology investigations in this Region, a similar study over the period 2010-2013 was conducted. TB strains isolated from 945 patients were submitted to genotyping by standardized 24-locus-MIRU-VNTR t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Molecular epidemiology tools are widely used in determining epidemiology of tuberculosis. Spoligotyping is a molecular epidemiology method that is used for characterization and typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. The method is based on polymorphism of the chromosomal DR locus consisting of identical 36-bp DRs alternating with 35-41 unique spacers. The...

background and objectives: molecular epidemiology tools are widely used in determining epidemiology of tuberculosis. spoligotyping is a molecular epidemiology method that is used for characterization and typing of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. the method is based on polymorphism of the chromosomal dr locus consisting of identical 36-bp drs alternating with 35-41 unique spacers. th...

Abstract The tomb of the Burgundian duke Philip Bold in Dijon, designed by Haarlem-born sculptor Claus Sluter, holds a key position development Western funerary art, especially on account lively and moving depiction cortège weepers around tomb. In this monument it is they who provide an example to their beholders – namely, how mourn deceased ruler. Not only do these expressive statuettes encour...