Article
Genotyping of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates based on eight loci of MIRU-VNTR.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Feb 2013
Liu R X, Li Q Z, Xing L L, Peng Z, Zhu C M, Yang Z H
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping that differentiates between strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on variations in the genome of the organism is a useful tool for molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis. In the present study, we identified a combination of five mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) loci and three variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR) loci of M. tuberculosis that showed a discriminatory...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sputum
- Tuberculosis