Article
Identification and subspecific differentiation of Mycobacterium scrofulaceum by automated sequencing of a region of the gene (hsp65) encoding a 65-kilodalton heat shock protein.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1996
Swanson D S, Pan X, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium scrofulaceum is most commonly recovered from children with cervical lymphadenitis, although it also accounts for approximately 2% of the mycobacterial infections in AIDS patients. Species assignment of M. scrofulaceum isolated by conventional techniques can be difficult and time-con...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Sequence
- Chaperonin 60
- Chaperonins
- Child
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Lymphadenitis
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous