Determination of circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and transmission patterns among pulmonary TB patients in Kawempe municipality, Uganda, using MIRU-VNTR

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) genotyping is a powerful tool for unraveling clonally complex Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains and detection of transmission patterns. Using MIRU-VNTR, MTB genotypes and their transmission...

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Autores principales: Nabyonga, Lydia, Kateete, David P, Katabazi, Fred A, Odong, Paul R, Whalen, Christopher C, Dickman, Katherine R, Moses, Joloba L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21835016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-280

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21835016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-280

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