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Tuberculosis
Scientists at Tri-Service General Hospital target tuberculosis
February 24th, 2009
According to a study from Neihu, Taiwan, "The genotype of a Beijing strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is usually determined by spoligotyping. However, this technique requires special equipment and is time-consuming." "In this study, we developed a new multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to differentiate between Beijing and non-Beijing strains of MTB. A total of 323 MTB isolates were genotyped by both spoligotyping and the novel multiplex PCR. By spoligotyping, 169 (52.3%) isolates were determined to be Beijing strains and the remaining 154 (47.7%) isolates were non-Beijing strains. The multiplex PCR method produced results identical to those of...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-24)
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