Multispacer sequence typing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotyping.

BACKGROUND: Genotyping methods developed to survey the transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis currently rely on the interpretation of restriction and amplification profiles. Multispacer sequence typing (MST) genotyping is based on the sequencing of several intergenic regions selected af...

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Main Authors: Zoheira Djelouadji, Catherine Arnold, Saheer Gharbia, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2413405?pdf=render