title: Genomic DNA fingerprinting of clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori by REP-PCR and restriction fragment end-labelling.
abstract: Genetic diversity of 32 Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from patients with gastritis, gastric or duodenal ulcer, carcinoma, or lymphoma was determined by repetitive sequence element polymerase chain reaction (REP-PCR), and by the new typing method restriction fragment end-labelling (RFEL). Furthermore, these two methods were used to investigate a possible correlation between clinical symptoms and the genetic background of Helicobacter pylori. Both REP-PCR and RFEL revealed 31 different patterns for the 32 strains tested, but the pair of isolates with identical REP-PCR patterns was not the same as the pair of isolates with identical RFEL patterns. Computer-assisted analysis of the DNA fingerprints was used to determine similarity coefficients. This analysis revealed no clustering of disease-specific strains by any of the two methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. NEM.van_Doorn.MM@med.vu.nl
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: van Doorn
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Namavar
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Kusters
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: van Rees
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kuipers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Graaff
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D005838:Genotype; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial