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Demonstrating a Multi-drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Amplification Microarray
Published on: April 25, 2014
Multiplex amplified nominal tandem-repeat analysis (MANTRA), a rapid method for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Adam J Merritt1, Terillee Keehner, Lyn C O'Reilly
1Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
Abstract:
A variable-number tandem-repeat genotyping method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was converted to run in a multiplex PCR format on a 12-well microfluidic laboratory chip. Epidemiologically and genotypically distinct isolate clusters of M. tuberculosis were identified. This rapid genotyping method has potential application in smaller clinical laboratories and public health field investigations.
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