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Improvement of Differentiation and Interpretability of Spoligotyping for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates by Introduction of New Spacer Oligonucleotides
26 Nov 2002
Abstract excerpt
The direct repeat (DR) region in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains is composed of multiple well-conserved 36-bp DRs interspersed with nonrepetitive DNA spacer sequences of similar size. Clinical isolates show extensive polymorphism in this DR region, and this has led to the development of a 43-spacer reversed line blot methodology: spoligotyping. Although this method has contributed significantly to the...
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