Article
Determination of genetic diversity of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Turkey using 15 locus MIRU-VNTR and spoligotyping methods.
Pathogens and global health - 1 Feb 2023
Gürer Giray Burcu, Aslantürk Ahmet, Şimşek Hülya, Özgür Didem, Kılıç Selçuk, Aslan Gönül
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of deaths from infectious disease worldwide. Nowadays, the tendency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) to spread between continents due to uncontrolled migration movements shows that TB is a global health problem. The number of studies for the...
Topics
- Humans
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Phylogeny
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Turkey
- Genetic Variation
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Genotype
- Bacterial Typing Techniques