title: Improved molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains using multi-locus variable number of tandem repeats typing.
authors.affiliation: Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba 260-8715, Japan. e.ykym@ma.pref.chiba.lg.jp
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kishida
authors.forename: Sadato
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ichinohe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology / Q000379:methods; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics*; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*