Rapid and Accurate Identification of Mycobacteria by Sequencing Hypervariable Regions of the 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene
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- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 118 (5) , 796-801
- https://doi.org/10.1309/hn44-xqym-jmaq-2edl
Abstract
We developed a method to identify mycobacteria by sequencing hypervariable regions of the polymerase chain reaction–amplified 16S ribosomal RNA gene.Keywords
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