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Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium kansasii isolates in the State of São Paulo between 1995-1998.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Nov 2004
Chimara Erica, Giampaglia Carmen Maria Saraiva, Martins Maria Conceição, Telles Maria Alice da Silva, Ueki Suely Yoko Mizuka, Ferrazoli Lucilaine
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium kansasii is the most common cause of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria infection and classical identification of this pathogen needs a time consuming phenotypic tests. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PRA) of the gene enconding for the 65 kDa heat shock (hsp65) protein offers an easy, rapid, and inexpensive procedure to identify and subtype M. kansasii...
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