Article
Identification of Bartonella bacilliformis genotypes and their relevance to epidemiological investigations of human bartonellosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2002
Birtles Richard J, Fry Norman K, Ventosilla Palmira, Cáceres Abraham G, Sánchez Eduardo, Vizcarra Hugo, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
Genotypic diversity among 26 isolates of Bartonella bacilliformis obtained from different areas of Peru, and at different times, was assessed by comparison of DNA sequences derived from 16S-23S ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer regions (ISR) and a citrate synthase gene (gltA) fragment and by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis. gltA comparison divided the isolates into two groups, whereas ISR...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bartonella
- Bartonella Infections
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Intergenic
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sampling Studies
