Prevalence and Characterization of Heterogeneous Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Clusters Comprising Drug-Susceptible and/or Variable Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosisComplex Isolates in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2016
| Autor: | Roof, Inge, Jajou, Rana, Kamst, Miranda, Mulder, Arnout, de Neeling, Albert, van Hunen, Rianne, van der Hoek, Wim, van Soolingen, Dick |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Microbiology; August 2018, Vol. 56 Issue: 11 |
| Abstrakt: | The variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing method is used to study tuberculosis (TB) transmission. Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosisisolates with identical VNTR patterns is assumed to reflect recent transmission. |
| Databáze: | Supplemental Index |
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