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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2017-01-05

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MIRU-VNTR genotyping of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Moscow region

Shur KV, Maslov DA, Bekker OB, Danilenko VN
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Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology,
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of RAS, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Valery N. Danilenko
ul. Gubkina, d. 3, Moscow, Russia, 119333; ur.ggiv@direlav

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Funding: this work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 13-04-91444 Toxin-antitoxins and RpsA in TB drug resistance and persistence).

Acknowledgements: authors thank the research team of the Department of Microbiology of the Central TB Research Institute (Moscow) for their assistance in preparing a collection of M. tuberculosis isolates, with special thanks going to Larisa Chernousova, D. Sci. (Biol).

Contribution of the authors to this work: Shur DA — experiment planning, data collection, analysis and interpretation, drafting a manuscript; Maslov DA — experiment planning, data analysis and interpretation, drafting a manuscript; Bekker OB, Danilenko VN — experiment planning, data interpretation, drafting of a manuscript.

Received: 2017-02-01 Accepted: 2017-03-24 Published online: 2017-03-13
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