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Tuberculosis
Research from M. Maes and co-authors yields new data on tuberculosis
November 11th, 2008
According to a study from Caracas, Venezuela, "White the gold standard for molecular epidemiological studies on tuberculosis is changing towards MIRU-VNTR typing because this technique generates easily analyzed numerical. it is less labor intensive and has a discriminative power comparable to that of IS6110-based RFLP, especially when 24 loci are analyzed; more extensive and representative validation studies are needed to confirm this." "In this study we genotyped 41 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, about 40% of the total case toad of the study year, from the Warao people, an indigenous population who live in a geographically isolated area in Venezuela and have a...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-11)
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