Improved differentiation of Mycobacteriu
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E. Yokoyama; K. Kishida; M. Uchimura; S. Ichinohe
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) typing was done on 230 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, including 41 strains isolated from 17 groups of epidemiologically linked patients. By PCR amplification, 185 (80.4%) of the 230 strains were Beijing genotype strains. VNTR typing was performed using t