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Qualitative Analysis To Ascertain Genotypic Identity of or Differences between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Laboratories with Limited Resources.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2013
Sislema-Egas Fernanda, Ruiz-Serrano María Jesús, Bouza Emilio, García-de-Viedma Darío
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is currently genotyped using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing, although the high cost of this technique restricts its implementation in resource-limited settings. We designed a MIRU-VNTR format, MLP3 (MIRU-VNTR length polymorphism triplex), that is based on the qualitative comparison of 5 nonfluorescent 3-band fingerprints in...
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