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. 1996 Feb;34(2):389–392. doi: 10.1128/jcm.34.2.389-392.1996

Typing of Mycobacterium avium isolates by PCR.

M Picardeau 1, V Vincent 1
PMCID: PMC228803  PMID: 8789021

Abstract

A Mycobacterium avium typing method based on PCR amplification of genomic sequences located between the recently described repetitive elements IS1245 and IS1311 was developed. This method was applied to a set of epidemiologically related and unrelated strains and compared with restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with IS1245 as the probe. This PCR typing consists of a rapid and simple technique, providing a reproducible M. avium characterization as discriminant as restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.

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