Against All Odds: Molecular Confirmation of an Implausible Case of Bone Tuberculosis | Zendy

Caroline Loïez | Zendy; Eve Willery | Zendy; JF Legrand | Zendy; V. Vincent | Zendy; M. Cristina Gutiérrez | Zendy; René Courcol | Zendy; Philip Supply | Zendy

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Against All Odds: Molecular Confirmation of an Implausible Case of Bone Tuberculosis

Author(s) -

Caroline Loïez,

Eve Willery,

JF Legrand,

V. Vincent,

M. Cristina Gutiérrez,

René Courcol,

Philip Supply

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/503571

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , variable number tandem repeat , mycobacterium tuberculosis , typing , odds , tandem repeat , virology , genetics , pathology , biology , genotype , genome , logistic regression , gene

We report the use of typing based on a variable number of tandem repeats of genetic elements called "mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units" to clarify a puzzling situation involving a patient with an exceptional case of spondylodiskitis that initially led to the suspicion of a possible event of laboratory cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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