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Clinical and epidemiological correlates of genotypes within the Mycobacterium avium complex defined by restriction and sequence analysis of hsp65.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2002
Smole Sandra C, McAleese Fionnuala, Ngampasutadol Jutamas, Von Reyn C Fordham, Arbeit Robert D
Abstract excerpt
Species identification of isolates of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) remains a difficult task. Although M. avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare can be identified with expensive, commercially available probes, many MAC isolates remain unresolved, including those representing Mycobacterium lentiflavum as well as other potentially undefined species. PCR restriction analysis (PRA) of the hsp65 gene has been...
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