Improved molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains using multi-locus variable number of tandem repeats typing.
Yokoyama
Eiji
E
Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba 260-8715, Japan. e.ykym@ma.pref.chiba.lg.jp
Kishida
Kazunori
K
Ichinohe
Sadato
S
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*