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Differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG by a polymerase chain reaction assay
B B Plikaytis1, K D Eisenach, J T Crawford
1Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta GA 30333.
Molecular and Cellular Probes
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis are closely related species which carry different numbers of the repetitive DNA element IS6110. A polymerase chain reaction assay was developed to assess the copy number of IS6110 in a strain and thereby differentiate these two important human pathogens.