Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing has been widely used for molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis (TB). However, genotyping tools for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may be limiting in some settings due...

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Main Authors: Nino Maghradze, Levan Jugheli, Sonia Borrell, Nestani Tukvadze, Russell R Kempker, Henry M Blumberg, Sebastien Gagneux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264472