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Evaluation of 24 locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Canada.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2010
Christianson Sara, Wolfe Joyce, Orr Pamela, Karlowsky James, Levett Paul N, Horsman Greg B, Thibert Louise, Tang Patrick, Sharma Meenu K
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The current gold standard for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) genotyping is insertion sequence (IS) 6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) as it provides the highest discriminatory power of all available MTBC genotyping methods. However, RFLP is labour intensive and the in...
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