TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementation of a consensus set of hypervariable mycobacterial interspersed Repetitive-Unit-Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology
AU - Trovato, Alberto Gaetano
AU - Tafaj, Silva
AU - Battaglia, Simone
AU - Alagna, Riccardo
AU - Bardhi, Donika
AU - Kapisyzi, Perlat
AU - Bala, Silvana
AU - Haldeda, Migena
AU - Borroni, Emanuele
AU - Hafizi, Hasan
AU - Cirillo, Daniela Maria
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - This study shows that the addition of a consensus 4-locus set of hypervariable mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit- variable-number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) loci to the spoligotyping-24-locus MIRU-VNTR typing strategy is a wellstandardized approach that can contribute to an improvement of the true cluster definition while retaining high typeability in non-Beijing strains.
AB - This study shows that the addition of a consensus 4-locus set of hypervariable mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit- variable-number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) loci to the spoligotyping-24-locus MIRU-VNTR typing strategy is a wellstandardized approach that can contribute to an improvement of the true cluster definition while retaining high typeability in non-Beijing strains.
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U2 - 10.1128/JCM.02945-15
DO - 10.1128/JCM.02945-15
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84956660217
VL - 54
SP - 478
EP - 482
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
SN - 0095-1137
IS - 2
ER -