Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium malmoense Infections in Scotland
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (3) , 1103-1105
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.3.1103-1105.2002
Abstract
Clinical isolates of Mycobacterium malmoense collected over 5 years from patients across Scotland with a variety of diseases have been characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), ribotyping, and 16S ribosomal DNA gene sequencing. Results indicate that this species harbors little genetic diversity and that the different strain types that were identified by PFGE showed no correlation with geographical origin or date of isolation.Keywords
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