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Tuberculosis
Research from University of Stellenbosch provides new data on tuberculosis
November 18th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, "IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) genotyping is the most widely used genotyping method to study the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, due to the complexity of the IS6110 RFLP genotyping technique, and the interpretation of RFLP data, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) genotyping has been proposed as the new genotyping standard." "This study aimed to determine the discriminatory power of different MIRU-VNTR locus combinations relative to IS6110 RFLP genotyping, using a collection of Beijing...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-18)
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