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. 1995 Aug;33(8):2195–2198. doi: 10.1128/jcm.33.8.2195-2198.1995

Molecular typing of Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia by DNA macrorestriction analysis and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis.

J D Yao 1, J M Conly 1, M Krajden 1
PMCID: PMC228365  PMID: 7559978

Abstract

Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia is a multidrug-resistant, nosocomial pathogen for which optimal typing methods in epidemiologic investigations of nosocomial outbreaks have not been defined. We compared DNA macrorestriction analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis by arbitrarily primed PCR for molecular typing of 109 multidrug-resistant strains of S. maltophilia from multiple outbreaks at our institution over a 10-month period in 1993. PFGE after digestion with restriction endonuclease DraI revealed 62 unique DNA restriction profiles among the 109 strains, with 23, 11, 6, 6, and 3 strains having concordant profiles in each of five types. There were four concordant profiles among 8 strains (2 strains with each profile), while unique profiles were present in each of the remaining 52 strains. Further RAPD analysis with a decanucleotide primer showed the same number of distinct strain types as PFGE but more subtype diversity within each clonal type. We concluded that DNA macrorestriction analysis and RAPD analysis are sufficiently discriminatory and useful for differentiation of S. maltophilia strains in epidemiologic investigations of nosocomial outbreaks. However, RAPD analysis by arbitrarily primed PCR is faster and less laborious method of molecular typing.

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