MOLECULAR STUDY OF NOSOCOMIAL NOCARDIOSIS OUTBREAK INVOLVING HEART-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

Authors
EXMELIN L MALBRUNY B VERGNAUD M PROSVOST F BOIRON P MOREL C
Citation
L. Exmelin et al., MOLECULAR STUDY OF NOSOCOMIAL NOCARDIOSIS OUTBREAK INVOLVING HEART-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS, Journal of clinical microbiology, 34(4), 1996, pp. 1014-1016
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
34
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1014 - 1016
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1996)34:4<1014:MSONNO>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis and rRNA gene restriction patterns (ribotyping) were compared as methods of investigating a noso comial outbreak of nocardiosis involving three heart transplant recipi ents. No clear distinctions between three clinically related isolates and four unrelated strains were obtained by ribotyping. On the contrar y, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis with two selected prime rs, primers 2650 and DKU49, showed one pattern for the three related i solates and four patterns for the unrelated strains.