Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Locus –A New Way to Predict the Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

The MIRU-VNTR (Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number of Tandem Repeat) typing has been a widely-used molecular method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotyping. It is unknown whether MIRU-VNTR is associated with drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The purpose of this...

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Main Authors: feng Yu Wen, Chao eJiang, feng Xian Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00147/full