Article
Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates at the Military Medical Academy in Ankara, Turkey.
Research in microbiology - 1 May 2007
Kisa Ozgul, Albay Ali, Baylan Orhan, Tozkoparan Ergun, Acikel Cengiz Han, Doganci Levent
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from infected individuals can play an important role in tracking the source of infection and unraveling the epidemiology of a tuberculosis pandemic. A total of 114 M. tuberculosis isolates were genotyped by spoligotyping and results were compared with an international spoligotype database (SpoIDB4). Twenty-one spoligotyping-defined clusters including 97 patients...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Military Personnel
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Oligonucleotides
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Turkey
