Genetic research about Mycobacterium avium complex

• Published in: Kekkaku Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 17 - 22
• Main Author: Ogawa, Kenji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan 2013
• Subjects: Clarithromycin - pharmacology; Drug Resistance, Bacterial - genetics; Genotype; Humans; Minisatellite Repeats; Mycobacterium avium Complex - genetics; Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection - microbiology; Tandem Repeat Sequences; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - microbiology

We conducted four genetic studies on the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). (1) M. avium genotyping: A total of 70 clinical isolates from patients with pulmonary MAC infections were typed by MATR-VNTR, IS1245-RFLP, and MIRU-VNTR analyses to compare discriminatory powers of these typing methods. To a...