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Relatedness of Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis clinical isolates of human and porcine origins assessed by MLVA.
Veterinary microbiology - 17 Sept 2014
Leão Célia, Canto Ana, Machado Diana, Sanches Ilda Santos, Couto Isabel, Viveiros Miguel, Inácio João, Botelho Ana
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Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) is an important opportunistic pathogen, infecting humans and animals, notably pigs. Several methods have been used to characterize MAH strains. RFLP and PFGE typing techniques have been used as standard methods but are technically demanding. In contrast, the analysis of VNTR loci is a simpler, affordable and highly reliable PCR-based technique, allowing a numerical and...
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