Guidance

National TB strain typing service: factsheet

Information on how Public Health England uses the tuberculosis (TB) strain typing service data.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 30 January 2014
• Last updated: 6 February 2025 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 6 February 2025

This guidance is out of date and has been superseded by ‘Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing and cluster investigation’.

Documents

[Withdrawn] Tuberculosis (TB) strain typing service: factsheet

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Details

This factsheet includes information on the advantages and disadvantages of using MIRU-VNTR (mycobacterial interspersed repeat units - variable number tandem repeats) over other genotyping methods.

Published 30 January 2014
Last updated 6 February 2025 + show all updates

1. 6 February 2025

   This guidance has been withdrawn.

2. 30 January 2014

   First published.