Guidance

M. tuberculosis strain typing: data production and distribution

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: Tuberculosis (TB): national strain typing service and Tuberculosis (TB) and other mycobacterial diseases: diagnosis, screening, management and data
• Published: 30 August 2012

Information for healthcare professionals on laboratory processes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) strain typing.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain typing: a guide to data production and distribution

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This guide is intended to complement the ‘TB strain typing handbook for health protection units’ by giving the typing data users an insight into:

• how and why the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England) is using MIRU-VNTR (mycobacterial interspersed repeat units - variable number tandem repeats) data
• how it is being generated
• how the laboratory data is analysed
• how and to whom results are reported

Document information

Published: 30 August 2012

From: Public Health England

Part of: Tuberculosis (TB): national strain typing service Tuberculosis (TB) and other mycobacterial diseases: diagnosis, screening, management and data