Article
Discrimination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria using novel VNTR-PCR targets.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Feb 2002
Skuce Robin A, McCorry Thomas P, McCarroll Julie F, Roring Solvig M M, Scott Alistair N, Brittain David, Hughes Stephen L, Hewinson R Glyn, Neill Sydney D
Abstract excerpt
The lack of a convenient high-resolution strain-typing method has hampered the application of molecular epidemiology to the surveillance of bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, particularly the monitoring of strains of Mycobacterium bovis. With the recent availability of genome sequences for strains of the M. tuberculosis complex, novel PCR-based M. tuberculosis-typing methods have been developed,...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Cattle
- Computational Biology
- DNA, Bacterial
- Databases, Nucleic Acid
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis