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Strain variation in Mediterranean and Red Sea Mycobacterium marinum isolates.
The new microbiologica - 1 Jul 2002
Sechi L A, Colorni A, Duprè I, Molicotti P, Fadda G, Zanetti S
Abstract excerpt
Four different PCR fingerprinting techniques were tested to distinguish possible strain variations in fourteen Mycobacterium marinum isolates, thirteen from Mediterranean and Red Sea fishes and one from a patient in Sardinia, Italy. PCR ribotyping and ERIC (enterobacterial repetitive consensus sequences)-PCR were found to be non-discriminative, whereas IS (insertion sequences)-PCR and GTG (GTG sequences...
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