TY - JOUR
KW - Base Sequence
KW - DNA, Bacterial
KW - Female
KW - genotype
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - Korea
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Molecular Sequence Data
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - polymerase chain reaction
KW - Probability
KW - Sensitivity and Specificity
KW - Tandem Repeat Sequences
AU - Chae G T
AU - Lee S B
AU - Kang T J
AU - Shin H K
AU - Kim J P
AU - Ko Y H
AU - Kim S H
AU - Kim N H
AB - <p>Although there is no genetic diversity in isolates of Mycobacterium leprae, the variance of tandem repeats in the rpoT gene was recently demonstrated. We have typed clinical isolates of M. leprae in Korea using difference of the tandem repeats in the rpoT gene. Among 69 patients, 65 Korean isolates (94.2%) demonstrated four copies of the 6 bp tandem repeat (GACATC) in the rpoT gene, and incidences of three copies were found in only two Koreans and two foreigners (2.9%, respectively).</p>
BT - Leprosy review
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11969125?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 2002 Mar
IS - 1
J2 - Lepr Rev
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Although there is no genetic diversity in isolates of Mycobacterium leprae, the variance of tandem repeats in the rpoT gene was recently demonstrated. We have typed clinical isolates of M. leprae in Korea using difference of the tandem repeats in the rpoT gene. Among 69 patients, 65 Korean isolates (94.2%) demonstrated four copies of the 6 bp tandem repeat (GACATC) in the rpoT gene, and incidences of three copies were found in only two Koreans and two foreigners (2.9%, respectively).</p>
PY - 2002
SP - 41
EP - 6
T2 - Leprosy review
TI - Typing of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium leprae and their distribution in Korea.
UR - https://leprosyreview.org/article/73/1/00-0006
VL - 73
SN - 0305-7518
ER -