TY - JOUR
AU - Lok, Kerry H.
AU - Benjamin, William H.
AU - Kimerling, Michael E.
AU - Pruitt, Virginia
AU - Mulcahy, Donna
AU - Robinson, Nancy
AU - Keenan, Nancy B.
AU - Dunlap, Nancy E.
T1 - Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains with a Common Two-Band IS6110 Pattern
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2002
VL - 8
IS - 11
SP - 1303
SN - 1080-6059
AB - We conducted a population-based molecular typing of all Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in Alabama since 1994. Of 2,452 isolates, 1,013 (41%) had fewer than 6 bands of IS6110; 348 (14%) had a single two-band pattern (JH2). With conventional epidemiologic methods, we identified three groups of related patients with JH2 isolates. Spoligotyping and pattern of variable number of tandem repeats identified 10 molecular groups; two found by conventional methods were subdivided.
KW - tuberculosis (TB) genotyping
KW - molecular epidemiology
KW - homeless
KW - variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR)
KW - spoligotype
KW - United States
DO - 10.3201/eid0811.020292
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/11/02-0292_article
ER - End of Reference