Unusual mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit alleles in loci 580 and 4348 among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Albania

J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Dec;52(12):4437-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02096-14. Epub 2014 Sep 24.

Authors

Alberto Trovato¹, Emanuele Borroni¹, Silva Tafaj², Hasan Hafizi², Daniela Maria Cirillo³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Immunology and Transplantation, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
² University Hospital Shefqet Ndroqi, Tirana, Albania.
³ Division of Infectious Disease, Immunology and Transplantation, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy cirillo.daniela@hsr.it.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Albania
Alleles*
Genotype
Humans
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences*
Minisatellite Repeats
Molecular Typing*
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / classification*
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics*
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
Tuberculosis / microbiology*