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Utility of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing for differentiating Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Wuhan, China.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Sept 2007
Han Hui, Wang Fang, Xiao Yong, Ren Yi, Chao Yanjie, Guo Aizhen, Ye Lingxiang
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) typing has been found to allow rapid, reliable, high-throughput genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and may represent a feasible approach to study M. tuberculosis molecular epidemiology. To evaluate the use of MIRU typing in discriminating M. tuberculosis strains, isolates from 105 patients in Wuhan City, China, were genotyped by this method as compared to...
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