Spoligotyping and whole-genome sequencing analysis of lineage 1 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Minako HijikataNaoto KeichoLe Van DucShinji MaedaNguyen Thi Le HangIkumi MatsushitaSeiya KatoPublished in: PloS one (2017)
Information about the alignment of spacers in the entire DR region obtained from WGS data provides a clue for the determination of experimentally ambiguous spoligo patterns. WGS data also helped to analyze the hidden relationships between apparently distinct spoligo patterns.