The use of variable-number tandem-repeat mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing to identify laboratory cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 31 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Vol. 52 (1), 21-28
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.12.002
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