Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Molecular Differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains without IS6110 Insertions

Kerry H. Lok*, William H. Benjamin*, Michael E. Kimerling*

, Virginia Pruitt†, Monica Lathan‡, Jafar Razeq‡, Nancy Hooper‡, Wendy Cronin‡, and Nancy E. Dunlap*

Author affiliations: *University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; †Alabama Department of Public Health, Montgomery, Alabama, USA; ‡Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;

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The variable number of tandem repeats results of three zero-copy IS6110 isolates with identical spoligotyping and polymorphic guanine cytosine-rich repetitive patterns. Seven VNTR loci are listed across the top. Second line represents the patient number of the isolates for each locus.

Figure 2. The variable number of tandem repeats results of three zero-copy IS6110 isolates with identical spoligotyping and polymorphic guanine cytosine-rich repetitive patterns. Seven VNTR loci are listed across the top. Second line represents the patient number of the isolates for each locus.

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