title: Clustering of tuberculosis cases based on variable-number tandem-repeat typing in relation to the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Netherlands.
abstract: The population structure of 3,776 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was determined using variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing. The degree of clonality was so high that a more relaxed definition of clustering cannot be applied. Among recent immigrants with non-Euro-American isolates, transmission is overestimated if based on identical VNTR patterns.
authors: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors: Rosa
authors: R
authors: Sloot
authors: Martien W
authors: MW
authors: Borgdorff
authors: Jessica L
authors: JL
authors: de Beer
authors: Jakko
authors: J
authors: van Ingen
authors: Philip
authors: P
authors: Supply
authors: Dick
authors: D
authors: van Soolingen
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D058889:Molecular Typing; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial
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