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. 1995 Jun;33(6):1461–1466. doi: 10.1128/jcm.33.6.1461-1466.1995

Genetic diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis revealed by restriction fragment length polymorphism of the rRNA gene region.

C Martin 1, M A Ichou 1, P Massicot 1, A Goudeau 1, R Quentin 1
PMCID: PMC228196  PMID: 7544364

Abstract

The restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns of rDNAs from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from the respiratory tracts of patients suffering from cystic fibrosis were obtained to evaluate the genetic polymorphism of this population of strains. Eighty-seven P. aeruginosa strains isolated from 87 patients from diverse areas of France and the ATCC 10145 strain were examined. Four restriction enzymes were used: BamHI, ClaI, EcoRI, and PstI. Forty-nine strains (56%) were in the three most frequent ribotypes (ribotypes R1 to R3). In addition, hierarchical clustering analysis of the data showed that 71 of the 88 strains (81%) clustered at a distance of less than one-third of the greatest distance observed in the total population. This indicates that clinical isolates implicated in the pathology of cystic fibrosis present a low degree of heterogeneity of rRNA operons, in contrast to the heterogeneity of strains of P. aeruginosa isolated from patients with various other pathologies. This relative homogeneity of rRNA genes was observed independently of the clinical status of the patient and the colony morphology.

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