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Evaluation of 24-locus MIRU-VNTR in extrapulmonary specimens: study from a tertiary centre in Mumbai.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 May 2012
Vadwai Viral, Shetty Anjali, Supply Philip, Rodrigues Camilla
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates is a useful tool for epidemiological control of tuberculosis (TB) and phylogenetic exploration of the pathogen. There is a lack of information on the discriminatory power of standard 24-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) - variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) in India, which has the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden worldwide. Therefore, we...
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