BIP! Finder - Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lisbon

2008 • Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lisbon

Authors: Isabel Portugal, Luís Barreiro, Tiago Vultos, Rita Macedo, Cristina Furtado, António Fonseca Antunes, Laura Brum

Venue: Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition)

Type: Publication

Abstract: We conducted a molecular epidemiology study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from patients in Lisbon hospitals. We used restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) to detect Lisbon family strains and to determine the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Lisbon, through identification of the most important risk factors of tuberculosis transmission analysis, with the insertion sequence IS6110 as a probe to fingerprint isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 64.8% of the 290 Mycobacterium tuberculos... (read more)

Topics: Microbiology Genetics Virology

DOI: 10.1016/s2173-5115(08)70256-2

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