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Detection of mixed infections with Mycobacterium lentiflavum and Mycobacterium avium by molecular genotyping methods.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2006
Suffys Philip, da Silva Rocha Adalgiza, Brandão Adeilton, Vanderborght Bart, Mijs Wouter, Jannes Geert, Mello Fernanda C Q, Pedro Heloisa da Silveira Paro, de Souza Fonseca Leila, de Oliveira Rosângela Siqueira, Cardoso Leão Sylvia, Féres Saad Maria Helena
Abstract excerpt
Three mycobacterial isolates, one from the blood of an HIV-infected patient and two consecutive isolates from a woman with unknown HIV status, had been identified as belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex by conventional procedures. In both patients, using genetic analysis procedures such as PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) of the hsp65 gene, a commercially available reverse hybridization-based assay...
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