Use of IS901 and IS1245 in RFLP typing of Mycobacterium avium complex: relatedness among serovar reference strains, human and animal isolates. - Concepedia

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Use of IS901 and IS1245 in RFLP typing of Mycobacterium avium complex: relatedness among serovar reference strains, human and animal isolates.

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1998

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Viviana Ritacco, Kristin Kremer, T. van der Laan, J. E. M. Pijnenburg, Petra E. W. de Haas, Dick van Soolingen

Abstract

IS1245-RFLP typing is useful for the classification of M. avium and epidemiology of most human isolates. The highly conserved IS901 and IS1245 RFLPs among 'bird' type isolates provide proof that these strains constitute a separate taxon within the MAC.