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Mycobacterium avium genotype is associated with the therapeutic response to lung infection.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2014
Kikuchi T, Kobashi Y, Hirano T, Tode N, Santoso A, Tamada T, Fujimura S, Mitsuhashi Y, Honda Y, Nukiwa T, Kaku M, Watanabe A, Ichinose M
Abstract excerpt
Factors that can interfere with the successful treatment of Mycobacterium avium lung infection have been inadequately studied. To identify a potent predictor of therapeutic responses of M. avium lung infection, we analyzed variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) at 16 minisatellite loci of M. avium clinical isolates. Associations between the VNTR profiling data and a therapeutic response were evaluated in 59...
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