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RIDOM: comprehensive and public sequence database for identification of Mycobacterium species.
BMC infectious diseases - 11 Nov 2003
Harmsen Dag, Dostal Stefan, Roth Andreas, Niemann Stefan, Rothgänger Jörg, Sammeth Michael, Albert Jürgen, Frosch Matthias, Richter Elvira
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BACKGROUND: Molecular identification of Mycobacterium species has two primary advantages when compared to phenotypic identification: rapid turn-around time and improved accuracy. The information content of the 5' end of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S rDNA) is sufficient for identification of most bacterial species. However, reliable sequence-based identification is hampered by many faulty and some missing...
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