Volume 15, Number 10—October 2009
Research
Discriminatory Ability of Hypervariable Variable Number Tandem Repeat Loci in Population-based Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains, London, UK
Table 1
No. repeats | Length of expected fragments for each locus, bp |
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MIRU 26 | ETR-B | VNTR 1982 | VNTR 3232† | |
0 | 244 | 121 | 178 | |
1 | 295 | 174 | 256 | 242 |
2 | 344 | 227 | 334 | 286 |
3 | 393 | 280 | 412 | 330 |
4 | 442 | 333 | 490 | 372 |
5 | 491 | 386 | 568 | 415 |
6 | 540 | 439 | 646 | 458 |
7 | 589 | 492 | 727 | 501 |
8 | 638 | 545 | 802 | 546 |
9 | 687 | 598 | 880 | 587 |
10 | 736 | 651 | 958 | 630 |
11 | 785 | 1,038 | 673 | |
12 | 834 | 1,116 | 716 | |
13 | 883 | 1,194 | 759 | |
14 | 932 | 802 | ||
15 | 845 | |||
16 | 888 | |||
17 | 931 | |||
18 | 974 | |||
19 | 1,017 | |||
20 | 1,060 |
*MIRU, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit; ETR, exact tandem repeat; VNTR, variable number tandem repeats.
†No isolates had 0 repeats in locus 3232 in our population.
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