Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive-Unit Locus PCR Amplification and Beijing Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Liu et al. ([8][1]) assessed the usefulness of five mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit (MIRU) loci and RD105 deletion-targeted multiplex PCR (DTM-PCR) ([1][2]) to predict M. tuberculosis Beijing strains. They concluded that negative amplification of Mtub02 had sensitivity and specificity