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Discriminatory potential of a novel set of Variable Number of Tandem Repeats for genotyping Mycobacterium marinum.
Veterinary microbiology - 26 Aug 2011
Sun Gang, Chen Chao, Li Jing, Gui Xiaohong, Li Xueyuan, Chen Lin, Peng Feng, Mei Jian, Gao Qian
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium marinum is a free-living bacterium that infects fish and amphibians, but is also an opportunistic pathogen in humans. Although in previous studies, the bacterium has shown a small number of Variable Number of Tandem Repeat (VNTR) polymorphic loci, the discriminatory power of the known VNTR loci is unlikely to be sufficient to distinguish such a globally ubiquitous waterborne microorganism, which has...
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