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SUBMITTER: Luo T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3295100 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luo Tao T Yang Chongguang C Gagneux Sebastien S Gicquel Brigitte B Mei Jian J Gao Qian Q
Journal of clinical microbiology 20120111 3
The standard 15- and 24-locus variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) genotyping methods have demonstrated adequate discriminatory power and a small homoplasy effect for tracing tuberculosis (TB) transmission and predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in European and North American countries. However, its validity for the definition of transmission in homogenous M. tuberculosis populations in settings with high TB burdens has been questioned. Here, we genotyped a population-based collection ...[more]