characteristics.text: ERC000028
characteristics.characteristic: ENA-CHECKLIST
characteristics.text: 2018-03-28T17:04:16Z
characteristics.characteristic: ENA-FIRST-PUBLIC
characteristics.text: 2018-03-26T16:06:06Z
characteristics.characteristic: ENA-LAST-UPDATE
characteristics.text: SAMEA104718525
characteristics.characteristic: External Id
characteristics.text: RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
characteristics.characteristic: INSDC center name
characteristics.text: 2018-03-28T17:04:16Z
characteristics.characteristic: INSDC first public
characteristics.text: 2018-03-26T16:06:06Z
characteristics.characteristic: INSDC last update
characteristics.text: public
characteristics.characteristic: INSDC status
characteristics.text: ERS2319908
characteristics.characteristic: SRA accession
characteristics.text: WGSVNTR2016120
characteristics.characteristic: Submitter Id
characteristics.text: 2016
characteristics.characteristic: collection date
characteristics.text: Patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates sharing identical DNA fingerprint patterns can be epidemiologically linked. However, municipal health services in the Netherlands are able to confirm an epidemiological link in only around 23% of the patients with isolates clustered by the conventional variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) genotyping. This research aims to investigate whether whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a more reliable predictor of epidemiological links between tuberculosis patients than VNTR genotyping
characteristics.characteristic: description
characteristics.text: Netherlands
characteristics.characteristic: geographic location (country and/or sea)
characteristics.text: not collected
characteristics.characteristic: host health state
characteristics.text: human
characteristics.ontologyTerms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
characteristics.characteristic: host scientific name
characteristics.text: clinical samples
characteristics.characteristic: isolation source
characteristics.text: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
characteristics.characteristic: organism
characteristics.text: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
characteristics.characteristic: scientific_name
characteristics.text: Epidemiological links between tuberculosis cases identified by whole genome sequencing and conventional molecular typing
characteristics.characteristic: title