Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections: main methodologies and achievements

D Van Soolingen - Journal of internal medicine, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
van Soolingen D (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The
Netherlands). Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections: main …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide occurrence of Beijing/W strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review

…, PJ Bifani, K Kremer, D van Soolingen - Emerging infectious …, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Strains of the Beijing/W genotype family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have caused large
outbreaks of tuberculosis, sometimes involving multidrug resistance. This genetically highly …

Epidemiology of antituberculosis drug resistance 2002–07: an updated analysis of the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance

…, S Hoffner, F Drobniewski, L Barrera, D van Soolingen… - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Background The Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance has been gathering
data since 1994. This study provides the latest data on the extent of drug resistance worldwide…

A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

…, AS Pym, S Samper, D Van Soolingen… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The distribution of 20 variable regions resulting from insertion-deletion events in the
genomes of the tubercle bacilli has been evaluated in a total of 100 strains of Mycobacterium …

Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology

…, M Van Agterveld, D Van Soolingen… - Journal of clinical …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Widespread use of DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) to differentiate
strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to monitor the transmission of tuberculosis has been …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population …

…, UB Singh, A Somoskovi, RA Skuce, D Van Soolingen… - BMC microbiology, 2006 - Springer
Background The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) is a
member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) …

Occurrence and stability of insertion sequences in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: evaluation of an insertion sequence-dependent DNA polymorphism …

D Van Soolingen, PW Hermans… - Journal of clinical …, 1991 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 (IS) …

Predominance of a single genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in countries of east Asia

D Van Soolingen, L Qian, PE De Haas… - Journal of clinical …, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
Analysis of the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from the People's
Republic of China showed that the vast majority belong to a genetically closely related group…

Proposal for Standardization of Optimized Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

…, K Kremer, C Locht, D Van Soolingen - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Saunders, and D. van Soolingen, Abstr. EU Concerted Action Project Meet., Prague, Czech
van Soolingen. 2000. Genetic heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates reflected …

Comparison of Methods Based on Different Molecular Epidemiological Markers for Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains: Interlaboratory Study of …

K Kremer, D Van Soolingen… - Journal of clinical …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this study, the currently known typing methods forMycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
were evaluated with regard to reproducibility, discrimination, and specificity. Therefore, 90 M. …