title: Typing of Mycobacterium avium isolates by PCR.
abstract: A Mycobacterium avium typing method based on PCR amplification of genomic sequences located between the recently described repetitive elements IS1245 and IS1311 was developed. This method was applied to a set of epidemiologically related and unrelated strains and compared with restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with IS1245 as the probe. This PCR typing consists of a rapid and simple technique, providing a reproducible M. avium characterization as discriminant as restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picardeau
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vincent
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial