[HTML][HTML] A Single-Step Sequencing Method for the Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Species

Z Djelouadji, D Raoult, M Daffé… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) comprises closely related
species responsible for strictly human and zoonotic tuberculosis. Accurate species …

Sensitivities and specificities of spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing methods for studying molecular …

AN Scott, D Menzies, TN Tannenbaum… - Journal of Clinical …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of PCR-based genotyping modalities (spoligotyping and mycobacterial
interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat [MIRU-VNTR] typing) offers …

First Insight into the Population Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia

SAM Al-Hajoj, T Zozio, F Al-Rabiah… - Journal of Clinical …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study constitutes a first attempt to describe the genetic population structure and drug
resistance of the tubercle bacilli circulating in Saudi Arabia. A total of 1,505 clinical isolates …

Combination of single nucleotide polymorphism and variable-number tandem repeats for genotyping a homogenous population of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing …

T Luo, C Yang, S Gagneux, B Gicquel… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The standard 15-and 24-locus variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR)
genotyping methods have demonstrated adequate discriminatory power and a small …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 7 strains are associated with prolonged patient delay in seeking treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

SA Yimer, G Norheim, A Namouchi… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent genotyping studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia have reported the
identification of a new phylogenetically distinct M. tuberculosis lineage, lineage 7. We …

Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis, a More Accurate Method …

H van Deutekom, P Supply, PEW de Haas… - Journal of clinical …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT IS 6110 fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the standard
identification method in studies on transmission of tuberculosis. However, intensive …

Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism–Based Population Genetic Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains from 4 Geographic Sites

MM Gutacker, B Mathema, H Soini… - The Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We studied genetic relationships among 5069 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains
recovered from patients enrolled in 4 population-based studies in the United States and …

Resolving lineage assignation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates classified by spoligotyping with a new high-throughput 3R SNPs based method

E Abadia, J Zhang, T dos Vultos, V Ritacco… - Infection, genetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We developed a new multiplexed-PCR assay to accurately classify Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex (MTC) isolates at the sublineage level by single nucleotide …

[HTML][HTML] High resolution, on-line identification of strains from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on tandem repeat typing

P Le Flèche, M Fabre, F Denoeud, JL Koeck… - BMC microbiology, 2002 - Springer
Background Currently available reference methods for the molecular epidemiology of the
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex either lack sensitivity or are still too tedious and slow …

[HTML][HTML] The re-emergence of tuberculosis: what have we learnt from molecular epidemiology?

MW Borgdorff, D Van Soolingen - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2013 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged over the past two decades: in industrialized countries in
association with immigration, and in Africa owing to the human immunodeficiency virus …