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Subspecific differentiation of Mycobacterium avium complex strains by automated sequencing of a region of the gene (hsp65) encoding a 65-kilodalton heat shock protein.
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Apr 1997
Swanson D S, Kapur V, Stockbauer K, Pan X, Frothingham R, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
To develop a strategy for rapid species assignment and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) organisms, the sequence of a 360-bp region of the gene (hsp65) encoding a 65-kDa heat shock protein was determined for 56 isolates, including 21 patient isolates and 35 reference strains. Eleven hsp65 alleles were identified, and there was no sharing of alleles between strains classified as M. avium...
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