Mycobacterium avium complex strains from AIDS patients belong to a homogeneous group ascribed by rRNA typing methods

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 683-690

  Peillon, R ^a   Drouet, E ^b   Wilmotte, R ^c   Cotte, L ^d   Panteix, G ^a   De Montclos, H ^a  

^a LMM Laboratoire Marcel Merieux   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

AIDS; Internal transcribed spacer; ITS types; Mycobacterium avium; RFLP; Ribotypes; rRNA; Sequevars

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 0030784631     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)80067-9     Document Type: Article

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