Article
Heterogeneity of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strains in various human infections and relationships between serotype, genotype, and antimicrobial susceptibility.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Paju S, Carlson P, Jousimies-Somer H, Asikainen S
Abstract excerpt
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, an oral pathogen, only occasionally causes nonoral infections. In this study 52 A. actinomycetemcomitans strains from 51 subjects with nonoral infections were serotyped and genotyped by arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) to determine whether a certain clone(s) is specifically associated with nonoral infections or particular in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. The...
Topics
- Actinobacillus Infections
- Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
- Exotoxins
- Genotype
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Mouth Diseases
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Serotyping