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Real-time PCR and high-resolution melt analysis for rapid detection of Mycobacterium leprae drug resistance mutations and strain types.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2012
Li Wei, Matsuoka Masanori, Kai Masanori, Thapa Pratibha, Khadge Saraswoti, Hagge Deanna A, Brennan Patrick J, Vissa Varalakshmi
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance surveillance and strain typing of Mycobacterium leprae are necessary to investigate ongoing transmission of leprosy in regions of endemicity. To enable wider implementation of these molecular analyses, novel real-time PCR-high-resolution melt (RT-PCR-HRM) assays without allele-specific primers or probes and post-PCR sample handling were developed. For the detection of mutations within drug...
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