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Brudey,K.; Driscoll,J.R.; Rigouts,L.; Prodinger,W.M.; A. Gori; Al-Hajoj,S.A.; Allix,C.; Aristimuno,L.; Arora,J.; Baumanis,V.; Binder,L.; Cafrune,P.; Cataldi,A.; Cheong,S.; Diel,R.; Ellermeier,C.; Evans,J.T.; M. Fauville; Ferdinand,S.; V. de Garcia; Garzelli,C.; Gazzola,L.; Gomes,H.M.; M.C. Gutierrez; Hawkey,P.M.; van Helden,P.D.; Kadival,G.V.; B.N. Kreiswirth; K. Kremer; Kubin,M.; Kulkarni,S.P.; Liens,B.; Lillebaek,T.; Ho,M.L.; Martin,C.; Mokrousov,I.; Narvskaia,O.; Ngeow,Y.F.; Naumann,L.; Niemann,S.; Parwati,I.; Rahim,Z.; Rasolofo-Razanamparany,V.; Rasolonavalona,T.; Rossetti,M.L.; Rusch-Gerdes,S.; Sajduda,A.; Samper,S.; Shemyakin,I.G.; Singh,U.B.; Somoskovi,A.; R.A. Skuce; D. van Soolingen; Streicher,E.M.; Suffys,P.N.; Tortoli,E.; Tracevska,T.; Vincent,V.; Victor,T.C.; R. Warren; Yap,S.F.; Zaman,K.; Portaels,F.; Rastogi,N.; Sola,C.Keywords
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) is a member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) sequences family. Spoligotyping is the widely used PCR-based reverse-hybridization blotting technique that assays the genetic diversity of this locus and is useful both for clinical laboratory, molecular epidemiology, evolutionary and population genetics. It is easy, robust, cheap, and produces highly diverse portable numerical results, as the result of the combination of (1) Unique Events Polymorphism (UEP) (2) Insertion-S…