Molecular characterization of Mycobaterium tuberculosis isolates presenting various drug susceptibility profiles from Greece using three DNA typing methods

Journal of Infection

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-262

  Vrioni, Georgia ^a   Levidiotou, Stamatina ^a   Matsiota Bernard, Peggy ^a,b   Marinis, Evangelos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Chest Diseases Hospital Sotiria   (Greece)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Mycobaterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PRIMER DNA; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PROBE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCREENING TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 1642405351     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. World Health Organization http://www.Int/inf-fs/en/fact104.html.
2. Rattan A, Kalia A, Ahmad N. Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: molecular perspectives. Emerg Infect Dis 1998;4:195-209.
3. Wellstood S. Diagnostic mycobacteriology: current challenges and technologies. Lab Med 1993;24:357-361.
4. Kamerbeek J, Schouts L, Kolk A, et al. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:907-914.
5. Palittapongarnpim P, Chomyc S, Fanning A, Kunimoto D. DNA fragment length polymorphism analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction. J Infect Dis 1993;167:975-978.
6. Devallois A, Horgen L, Sola C, Rastogi N. Le typage moleculaire des Mycobacteries. Pathologie Biologie 1998; 46:625-636.
7. Mazars E, Lesjean S, Banuls AL, et al. High-resolution minisatetlite-based typing as a portable approach to global analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 2001;8:1901-1906.
8. Cooksey RC, Morlock GP, Glickman S, Crawford JT. Evaluation of a line probe assay kit for characterization of rpoB mutations in rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from New-York City. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35: 281-1283.
9. Nachamkir I, Kang C, Weinstein MP. Detection of resistance to isoniazid, rifampin, and streptomycin in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by molecular methods. Clin Infect Dis 1997;24:894-900.
10. Torrea G, Offredo C, Simonet M, Gicquel B, Berche P, Audigier CP. Evaluation of tuberculosis transmission in a community by 1 year of systemic typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1996;34: 1043-1049.
11. Thierry D, Vincent V, Clement F, Guesdon JL. Isolation of specific DNA fragments of Mycobacterium avium and their possible use in diagnosis. J Clin Microbiol 1993;31: 1048-1054.
12. Starnbach MN, Falkow S, Tompkins LS. Species-specific detection of Legionella pneumophila in water by DNA amplification and hybridization. J Clin Microbial 1989;27: 1257-1261.
13. Matsiota-Bernard P, Waser S, Tassios PT, Kyriakopoulos A, Legakis NJ. Rapid discrimination of Mycobacterium avium strains from AIDS patients by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:1585-1588.
14. Cindy RF, Mark YS, Warren Jr. DJ, Lee WR. Double-repetitive-element PCR method for subtyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33: 1383-1384.
15. Thierry D, Matsiota-Bernard P, Pitsouni E, Kostopoulos C, Guesdon JL. Use of the insertion element IS6110 for DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates presenting various profiles of drug susceptibility. FEMS Immun Med Microbiol 1993;6:287-297.
16. van Soolingen D, Hermans PW, de Haas PE, Soll DR, van Embden JD. Occurrence and stability of insertion sequences in Mycobacterium tuberculosis comptex strains: evaluation of an insertion sequence-dependent polymorphism as a tool in the epidemiology of tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 29:2578-2586.
17. Matsiota-Bernard P, Vrioni G, Marinis E. Characterization of rpo B mutations in rifampin-resistant clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Greece. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36: 20-23.
18. Fomukong N, Beggs M, Hajj H. Differences in the presence of IS6110 insertion sites in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains: low and high copy number of IS6110. Tuber Lung Dis 1997; 78:109-116.
19. Cole ST, Brosch R, Parkhill J, et al. Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence. Nature 1998;393:537-544.
20. Wilson SM, Gross S, Drobniewski F. Evaluation of strategies for molecular fingerprinting for use in the routine work of a Mycobacterium reference unit. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36: 3385-3388.
21. Sechi LA, Zanetti S, Dupre I, Dekogu G, Fadda G. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus as molecular targets for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:128-132.
22. Olive DM, Bean P. Principles and applications of methods for DNA-based typing of microbial organisms. J Clin Microbiol 1999;37:1661-1669.
23. Sola C, Horgen L, Maisetti J, Devallois A, Goh KS, Rastogi N. Spoligotyping followed by double-repetitive element PCR as rapid alternative to IS6110 fingerprinting for epidemiological studies of tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:1122-1124.
24. Mostrom P, Gordon M, Sola C, Ridell M, Rastogi N. Methods used in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. Clin Microbiol Infect 2002;8:694-704.
25. Kremer K, van Soolingen D, Frothingham R, et al. Comparison of methods based on different molecular epidemiological markers for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: interlaboratory study of discriminatory power and reproducibility. J Clin Microbiol 1999;37:2607-2618.
26. Sola C, Filliot I, Guttierez CM, Mokrousov I, Vincent V, Rastogi N. Spoligotype database of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: biogeographical distribution of shared types and epidemiologic and phylogenetic perspectives. Emerg Infect Dis 2001;7:390-396.