This article reviews recent developments in the application of cell-free DNA-based liquid
biopsies to neurological diseases. Over the past few decades, an explosion of interest in the …

Strain ty** is an integral part of epidemiological investigations of nosocomial infections.
Methods for distinguishing among bacterial strains have improved dramatically over the last …

DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been shown to be a powerful
epidemiologic tool. We propose a standardized technique which exploits variability in both …

Control of tuberculosis is threatened by widespread emergence of drug resistance in
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Understanding the molecular basis of resistance might lead to …

An isothermal in vitro DNA amplification method was developed based upon the following
sequence of reaction events. Restriction enzyme cleavage and subsequent heat …

In this study we established the usefulness of DNA fingerprinting for the epidemiology of
tuberculosis on the basis of the DNA polymorphism generated by the insertion sequence …

Background The epidemiology of tuberculosis in urban populations is changing. Combining
conventional epidemiologic techniques with DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium …

Genetic loci containing variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR loci) form the basis for
human gene map** and identification, forensic analysis and paternity testing. The …

Molecular ty** has revolutionized epidemiological studies of infectious diseases,
including those of a mycobacterial etiology. With the advent of fingerprinting techniques …

Five different genetic elements have been found to be associated with genetic
rearrangements in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Of these elements, the …