Article
Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Tanga, Tanzania: First insight of MIRU-VNTR and microarray-based spoligotyping in a high burden country.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 May 2016
Hoza Abubakar S, Mfinanga Sayoki G, Moser Irmgard, König Brigitte
Abstract excerpt
Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis(MTB) has greatly enhanced the understanding of the population structure of MTB isolates and epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). To characterize prevalent genotypes of MTB, microarrays‑based spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit‑...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Bacteriological Techniques
- Child
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis