POPULATION-GENETICS OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX IN SCOTLANDANALYZED BY PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS

Authors
OLSON ES FORBES KJ WATT B PENNINGTON TH
Citation
Es. Olson et al., POPULATION-GENETICS OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX IN SCOTLANDANALYZED BY PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS, Epidemiology and infection, 114(1), 1995, pp. 153-160
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Epidemiology and infection → ACNP
ISSN journal
09502688
Volume
114
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
153 - 160
Database
ISI
SICI code
0950-2688(1995)114:1<153:POMCIS>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The results of typing of 121 strains in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by PFGE are presented. Every isolate from patients in Scotlan d over a S-month period for M. tuberculosis and for 1 year for M. bovi s were included along with several laboratory strains including those of BCG. The PFGE results suggest that the population structure of all the strains in this complex is distinctly simple with limited genetic diversity and also suggest that M. bovis is not a distinct species.