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Genotyping North American animal Mycobacterium bovis isolates using multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis.
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc - 1 Nov 2008
Martinez Lorene R, Harris Beth, Black William C, Meyer Robert M, Brennan Patrick J, Vissa Varalakshmi D, Jones Robert L
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) has recently emerged as a genotyping method that is both robust and highly discriminatory for the differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains, including Mycobacterium bovis. However, MLVA assessment of M. bovis isolates recovered from animals in North America has been limited. Using an epidemiologically diverse set of 41 North...
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