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MIRU-VNTR analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Tehran, Sistan-Baluchestan, Kermanshah and Hormozgan during 2014 and 2015.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 30 Dec 2017
Baghbanian Mahroo, Zandi Hengameh, Zamani Samin, Javadpour Sedigheh, Hamzehloo Gholam Reza, Feizabadi Mohammad Mahdi
Abstract excerpt
Standard 15-locus Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Variable Number Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a valuable instrumentation for TB control. Our knowledge about the genetic diversity of MTB and population structure of MTB circulating in Iran is limited. During 2014-2015, 98 MTB isolates were collected from the TB centers of four provinces of Iran. Isolates were...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Humans
- Iran
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Phylogeny
- Tuberculosis
