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Tuberculosis
Study results from INSERM update understanding of tuberculosis
October 7th, 2008
"Because of its portable data, discriminatory power, and recently proposed standardization, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing has become a major method for the epidemiological tracking of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) clones. However, no public MIRU-VNTR database based on well-characterized reference strains has been available hitherto for easy strain identification," scientists in Lille, France report. "Therefore, a collection of 186 reference strains representing the primary MTBC lineages was used to build a database, which is freely accessible at http://www. MIRU-VNTRplus.org. The geographical...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-10-07)
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