| Literature DB >> 12791904 |
Awewura Kwara1, Ronald Schiro, Lauren S Cowan, Newton E Hyslop, Mark F Wiser, Stephanie Roahen Harrison, Patricia Kissinger, Lois Diem, Jack T Crawford.
Abstract
Spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MIRU-VNTR) were evaluated for the ability to differentiate 64 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 10 IS6110-defined clusters. MIRU-VNTR performed slightly better than spoligotyping in reducing the number of clustered isolates and the sizes of the clusters. All epidemiologically related isolates remained clustered by MIRU-VNTR but not by spoligotyping.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12791904 PMCID: PMC156564 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.6.2683-2685.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948