[Identification of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex in Tohoku district of Japan by using DNA probes].
Attempts were made to identify Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare in the M. avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) isolated in the Tohoku district of Japan by using DNA probes (Gen-Probe; Rapid Diagnostic System) which are specific for M. avium, M. intracellulare and M. tuberculosis complex, respectively. In the Tohoku district, the ratio of M. avium isolates (80%) exceeded that of M. intracellulare isolates. It was thus shown that, in the Tohoku district where no data concerning the ratio of M. avium to M. intracellulare isolates had been available, the ratio of M. avium by far exceeded that of M. intracellulare.
Kikuchi
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Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Shoji
S
S
Watanabe
A
A
Motomiya
M
M
Yoshida
T
T
D015342:DNA Probes; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization
D015342:DNA Probes