Evaluation of customised lineage-specific sets of MIRU-VNTR loci for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in Ghana.

<h4>Background</h4>Different combinations of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci have been proposed for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Existing VNTR schemes show different discriminatory capacity among the six human MTBC lineages. Here, we evaluated the di...

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Main Authors: Adwoa Asante-Poku, Michael Selasi Nyaho, Sonia Borrell, Iñaki Comas, Sebastien Gagneux, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/1ce0e47d95674c1c9902a233663827eb
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