Are Variable-Number Tandem Repeats Appropriate for Genotyping Mycobacterium leprae?

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Microbiology

• Publication date

  2008-05-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1128/JCM.00239-08PMID 18495858PMCID PMC2446919
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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