Genetic heterogeneity in mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates reflected in IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns as low-intensity bands

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4478-4484

  De Boer, A S ^a   Kremer, K ^a   Borgdorff, M W ^a   De Haas, P E W ^a   Heersma, H F ^a   Van Soolingen, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034462389     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.12.4478-4484.2000     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Transmission of tuberculosis among the urban homeless
2. Results from 5 years of nationwide DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in a country with a low incidence of M. tuberculosis infection
3. Analysis of tuberculosis transmission between nationalities in the Netherlands in the period 1993-1995 using DNA fingerprinting
4. The application of molecular techniques to the diagnosis and epidemiology of mycobacterial diseases
5. Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence
6. Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection in an urban hospital: Epidemiologic and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis
7. An outbreak of tuberculosis with accelerated progression among persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus
8. IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism typing of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Madras, South India
9. Rate of change of IS6110 genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on serial patient isolates
10. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
11. Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Cuba outside of Havana, July 1994-June 1995: Utility of spoligotyping versus IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism
12. An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among hospitalized patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
13. IS6110-mediated deletions of wild-type chromosomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
14. A multi-institutional outbreak of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis. Epidemiology and clinical outcomes
15. The molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in New York City: The importance of nosocomial transmission and laboratory error
16. Stimulation of transposition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis insertion sequence IS6110 by exposure to a microaerobic environment
17. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in northern Tanzania
18. Computer analysis of IS6110 RFLP patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
19. Analysis of the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia, Tunisia, and the Netherlands: Usefulness of DNA typing for global tuberculosis epidemiology
20. Follow up of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in the French West Indies by IS6110-DNA fingerprinting and DR-based spoligotyping
21. Nosocomial outbreak of tuberculosis in a renal transplant unit: Application of a new technique for restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
22. Comparison of methods based on different molecular epidemiological markers for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: Interlaboratory study of discriminatory power and reproducibility
23. IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and H37Ra
24. Nonrandom association of IS6110 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Implications for molecular epidemiological studies
25. Transmission of tuberculosis in the metropolitan area of Zurich: A 3-year survey based on DNA fingerprinting
26. The epidemiology of tuberculosis in San Francisco. A population-based study using conventional and molecular methods
27. Investigation of cross contamination in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis laboratory using IS6110 DNA fingerprinting
28. Strain identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting: Recommendations for a standard methodology
29. Molecular epidemiology in the Netherlands: A nation-wide study from 1993 through 1997
30. Unexpectedly high strain diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a high-incidence community
31. Restriction fragment length polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from Greenland during 1992: Evidence of tuberculosis transmission between Greenland and Denmark
32. Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Denmark in 1992
33. Diversity of DNA fingerprints of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the United States
34. Simultaneous infection with two strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis