MIRU-VNTR Typing
Introducing the Best Six Loci in Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) Typing for Mycobacterium TuberculosisGenotyping
... Unit Typing and the Presence of Large Sequence and Single Nucleotide ...15-Locus MIRU-VNTR ...Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by 24-locus based MIRU-VNTR ...
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Genotypes and Characteristics of Clustering and Drug Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Collected in Heilongjiang Province, China
... (MIRU- VNTR), which is technically flexible to facilitate interlabora- tory comparison and database management, is well accepted and has recently been adapted to high-throughput techniques (7, ...of ...
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Comparison of a Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Method for Typing Mycobacterium avium with Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit VNTR and IS1245 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing
... (VNTR) typing method using the Mycobacterium avium tandem repeat (MATR) loci (MATR-VNTR) is employed in Japan for epidemiological studies using clinical isolates of ...MATR-VNTR typing ...
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Genotypes and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China
... The MIRU-VNTR method has been used in molecular epidemiology studies, and it is adequate for tracking re- cent transmission and distinguishing relapses and rein- fections ...power, MIRU typing ...
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Characterization of Ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Multiple Genetic Markers and Proposal of Genotyping Strategy
... (RFLP) typing, VNTR typing using exact tandem repeats (VNTR-ETR), and spoligotyping of the direct-repeat ...addition, VNTR-ETR typing could add further resolution to the ...
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High Genetic Diversity among Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis Strains from German Cattle Herds Shown by Combination of IS900 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis and Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing
... with MIRU profiles I and II could characterize closely related, possibly clonally related ...contrast, typing by VNTR analysis resulted in diverse genotypes within these groups; therefore, their ...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosisis the causative agent of tuberculosis in the southern ecological zones of Cameroon, as shown by genetic analysis
... MIRU-VNTR typing is technically flexible, as sizing can be done using capillary [11,12] or gel electrophoresis [13] or non denaturing high-performance liquid chro- matography ...15 ...
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Genomic Characterization of the Vaccinal Strain of Mycobacterium Avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis (MAP) 316F by MIRU-VNTR
... European VNTR database of Mycobacterium avium complex in France (available at: ...(10-14). MIRU-VNTR genotyping is a PCR-based system currently applied on numerous pathogenic bacteria (15-18) in ...
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Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin Taipei
... as MIRU- VNTR typing are ...all MIRU-VNTR patterns of Beijing family strains were highly similar, differing only in copy numbers for one to three ...the MIRU-VNTR locus 24 ...
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Role of MIRU VNTR and spoligotyping in assessing the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Henan Province, China
... MIRU-VNTR typing based on 26 loci, including the standard 24 loci [27] and 2 other loci, ...of MIRU-VNTR were analysed to construct a dendrogram based on the UPGMA ...
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Mycobacteria Interspersed Repetitive Units Variable Number of Tandem Repeat, Spoligotyping and Drug Resistance of Isolates from Pulmonary Tuberculosois Patients in Kenya
... study, MIRU-VNTR typing showed 12 different genotypes, with only 8 unidentified ...of MIRU- VNTR typing as opposed to spoligotyping which is the only typing method re- ...
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Proposal for Standardization of Optimized Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... 12 MIRU-VNTR ...secondary typing with a few ancillary loci may provide additional discrim- ination of particular genotypes in some specific ...with MIRU-VNTR typing may be ...
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Automated High Throughput Genotyping for Study of Global Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Based on Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units
... between MIRU-VNTR typing and IS6110 RFLP analysis, observed for only a minority of isolates, may be due to several ...while MIRU-VNTR analysis sug- gested the closest relationships to ...
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Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from tuberculosis patients in the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania
... oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) and Mycobacterium Interspersed Repetitive Units and Variable Number Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) were used to genotype ...genotypes. MIRU-VNTR ...
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Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes circulating in Ndola, Zambia
... MTBC typing methods being used include IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) [3] and PCR- based methods like spoligotyping [4], mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable number ...
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Mixed infection and clonal representativeness of a single sputum sample in tuberculosis patients from a penitentiary hospital in Georgia
... immunity to additional infections. Therefore, a recurrence of disease has been most often considered to be caused by endogenous reactivation of the strain that caused the orig- inal infection (relapse). Consequently, ...
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Detection of multiple strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using MIRU VNTR in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
... The MIRU-VNTR PCRs were performed on chromoso- mal DNA extracted from MTB cultures (described ...15 MIRU-VNTR loci (580, 2996, 802, 960, 1644, 3192, 424, 577, 2165, 2401, 3690, 4156, 2164b, ...
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A nested case–control study of predictors for tuberculosis recurrence in a large UK Centre
... Our work had several limitations. First, the informa- tion on several confounding factors (e.g. smoking) was based upon self-reported data and may not represent ac- tual exposure status, although this is likely to have ...
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Use of Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing To Differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Family Isolates from Hong Kong and Comparison with IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing and Spoligotyping
... molecular typing method for ...of VNTR typing with mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) (32, 33) is close to that of IS6110 RFLP (20, 31), and the method is highly reproducible (15, ...
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Rapid Deletion Based Subtyping System for the Manila Family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... losis typing methods, the effect of this system on discriminatory power was tested with combinations of spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR (Table ...12-locus MIRU-VNTR for Manila family ...
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