Use of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing to study Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from East Azarbaijan province of Iran.

Abstract excerpt

The aim of present study was to determine the genotypes of isolates from East Azarbaijan province by this method. We performed (MIRU-VNTR) analysis of strains, isolated from 127 patients during a period of September 2002 to March 2003 in tuberculosis centers of the province. Among 127 isolates, w...

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Bacterial Typing Techniques
• Biopsy
• Child
• Female
• Genetic Variation
• Humans
• Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
• Iran