title: Variable Number Of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) and its application in bacterial epidemiology.
abstract: Molecular epidemiology is the using of molecular techniques to study bacterial distribution in human populations. Recently molecular epidemiologist benefit from several techniques such as Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) typing method to typing bacterial strains. Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) typing is a tool for genotyping and provides data in a simple and numeric format based on the number of repetitive sequences. VNTR for first time identified in M. tuberculosis as Mycobacterial Interspersed Repeat Units (MIRUs). General terms of VNTR have now been reported in Bacillus anthracis, Legionella pneumophila, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Science, Sanandaj, Iran.
authors.forename: Rashid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramazanzadeh
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McNerney
mesh_terms: D001408:Bacillus anthracis / Q000235:genetics; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D019453:Escherichia coli O157 / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016952:Legionella pneumophila / Q000235:genetics; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000235:genetics; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000635:transmission
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial