Genetic relatedness of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex isolates from patients with pulmonary MAC disease and their residential soils

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 537-541

  Fujita, K ^a   Ito, Y ^a   Hirai, T ^a   Maekawa, K ^a   Imai, S ^a   Tatsumi, S ^a   Niimi, A ^b   Iinuma, Y ^c   Ichiyama, S ^a   Mishima, M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Genotype; Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex; Soil; Variable numbers of tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOIL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876784367     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03929.x     Document Type: Article

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