| Literature DB >> 9889241 |
H Vu-Thien1, C Dulot, D Moissenet, B Fauroux, A Garbarg-Chenon.
Abstract
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for the analysis of 13 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates, 11 successive strains isolated from sputa of five children and 2 isolates obtained the same day from twins, were compared. RAPD and PFGE both yielded nine types from the 13 isolates, showing a chronic colonization with one strain in three patients and a successive colonization with different strains in two patients. The promising results obtained with RAPD should be confirmed with a larger number of strains, but RAPD seems as suitable as PFGE for the typing of M. catarrhalis.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 9889241 PMCID: PMC84338
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948