Evaluation of customised lineage-specific sets of MIRU-VNTR loci for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in Ghana.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092675

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Evaluation of customised lineage-specific sets of MIRU-VNTR loci for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in Ghana.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2014

Asante-Poku Adwoa, Nyaho Michael Selasi, Borrell Sonia, Comas Iñaki, Gagneux Sebastien, Yeboah-Manu Dorothy

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BACKGROUND: Different combinations of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci have been proposed for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Existing VNTR schemes show different discriminatory capacity among the six human MTBC lineages. Here, we evaluated the discriminatory pow...

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Genotype
Ghana
Humans
Male
Minisatellite Repeats
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis

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