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Characterisation of a highly repeated DNA sequence from Mycobacterium bovis
T J Doran1, A L Hodgson, J K Davies
1CSIRO Division of Animal Health, Animal Health Research Laboratory, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report characterisation of a novel repeat sequence from a Mycobacterium bovis genomic library. The highly repeated sequence belongs to a family consisting of a 24 base pair (bp) direct repeat (DR), that appears to be organized into clusters on the chromosome. We classify the 24-bp DR into the group of prokaryotic DNA repeats known as the interspersed repetitive sequence elements. The 24-bp DR will be of potential use as a DNA fingerprinting tool in epidemiological studies of M. bovis.