Molecular characterization of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from human cases of disseminated disease in the USA, Thailand, Malawi, and Tanzania

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-157

  Ballard, Jason ^a   Turenne, Christine Y ^a,c   Wolfe, Joyce N ^a   Reller, L Barth ^b   Kabani, Amin ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; 16S 23S ITS; Bacteremia; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MALAWI; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; THAILAND; UNITED STATES; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

BACTEREMIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MALAWI; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36048933070     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.53.153     Document Type: Article

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