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A pulsed-field gel electrophoresis study of Mycobacterium fortuitum in a Caribbean setting underlines high genetic diversity of the strains and excludes nosocomial outbreaks.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Jun 2002
Legrand Eric, Radegonde Nathalie, Goh Khye Seng, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
Among rapidly-growing opportunistic mycobacteria, organisms of the Mycobacterium fortuitum-Mycobacterium chelonae complex (M. fortuitum, M. chelonae, M. abscessus and M. peregrinum) were isolated in significantly higher numbers during the period 1993-99 from clinical samples in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. Based on biochemical and cultural tests and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)...
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