Article
Genetic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the West Bank, Palestinian Territories.
BMC research notes - 7 Jun 2012
Ereqat Suheir, Nasereddin Abedelmajeed, Azmi Kifaya, Abdeen Ziad, Greenblatt Charles L, Spigelman Mark, Rastogi Nalin, Bar-Gal Gila Kahila
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared human tuberculosis (TB) a global health emergency and launched the "Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis" which aims to save a million lives by 2015. Global control of TB is increasingly dependent on rapid and accurate genetic typing of species...
Topics
- Antitubercular Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Databases, Genetic
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Gene Deletion
- Genotype
- Humans
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Middle East
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mutation