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Promising loci of variable numbers of tandem repeats for typing Beijing family Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jul 2008
Murase Yoshiro, Mitarai Satoshi, Sugawara Isamu, Kato Seiya, Maeda Shinji
Abstract excerpt
We analysed the genotypes of 325 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates obtained during 2002 throughout Japan. The genotyping methods included insertion sequence IS6110 RFLP, spoligotyping and variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analyses. Clustered isolates revealed by IS6110 RFLP analysis accounted for 18.5 % (60/325) of the isolates. Beijing genotype tuberculosis (TB) accounted for 73.8 % (240/325) of...
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