MLVA BASED CLASSIFICATION OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX LINEAGES FOR A ROBUST PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC SNAPSHOT OF ITS WORLDWIDE MOLECULAR DIVERSITY.

MLVA based classification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages for a robust phylogeographic snapshot of its worldwide molecular diversity.

Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) is useful to establish transmission routes and sources of infections for various microorganisms including Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC).The recently released SITVITWEB database contains 12-loci Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units--Variable Number of Tandem DNA Repeats (

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