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Article: Tuberculosis in the Caribbean: Using Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing to Understand Strain Origin and Transmission.
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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We used direct repeat (DR)-based spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) (in association with double-repetitive element-polymerase chain reaction, IS61/O-restriction fragment length polymorphism [RFLP], and sometimes DR-RFLP and polymorphic GC-rich sequence-RFLP) to detect epidemiologic links and transmission patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. In more than a third of the 218 strains we typed from this region, clusters and isolates shared genetic identity, which suggests epidemiologic links. However, because of limited epidemiologic information, only 14.2% of the strains could be directly linked. When spoligotyping ...
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