Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare from patients with and without AIDS compared by pyrolysis mass spectrometry.
Isolates of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAI) from AIDS and non-AIDS patients were compared by pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS). Those from AIDS patients were more closely related to each other than those from non-AIDS patients which were significantly more disparate.
Freeman
R
R
Microbiology Department, Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Sisson
P R
PR
Ward
A
A
Magee
J G
JG
Heatherington
C
C
Lightfoot
N F
NF
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000150:complications