Set-up and validation of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using BioNumerics software

• Mathias Klok Pedersen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: makp@ssi.dk

  Affiliation International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7469-5963

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• Aase Bengaard Andersen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Dorte Bek Folkvardsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Erik Michael Rasmussen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Erik Svensson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Troels Lillebaek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Philip Supply

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019—UMR 8204 - CIIL - Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille, Lille, France, Genoscreen, Campus de l'Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

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