MIRU24 - international standard 254532233433235152213423 The MIRU24 - international standard is a mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU) typing method that classifies Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MBTC) bacteria according to a multiple locus VNTR [variable number of tandem repeats] analysis (MLVA) typing scheme of counts of repeats at 24 sequence loci. The ordering of loci is as follows: MIRU 04, MIRU 26, MIRU 40, MIRU 10, MIRU 16, MIRU 31, 424 577, 2165, 401, 3690, 4156, 2163, 1955, 4052, MIRU 02, MIRU 23, MIRU 39, MIRU 20, MIRU 24, MIRU 27, 2347, 2461, 3171 test specification requires discussion