Rapid discrimination of Mycobacterium avium strains from AIDS patients by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis.
J Clin Microbiol
; 35(6): 1585-8, 1997 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9163488
ABSTRACT
A randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was performed for the molecular typing of Mycobacterium avium strains. This method was applied to epidemiologically unrelated M. avium strains isolated from the blood of 10 different AIDS patients and to strains that were considered epidemiologically related, as they had been isolated from the same patient but from different body locations (4 patients, 10 strains). Three oligonucleotide primers among the six tested were found to generate RAPD profiles with DNA from all M. avium strains and to successfully type them. This method for the typing of M. avium strains is rapid and easy to perform.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mycobacterium avium Complex
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Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection
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Bacterial Typing Techniques
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AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
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Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Clin Microbiol
Year:
1997
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France