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J Clin Microbiol. 1992 June; 30(6): 1562-1567

Ribotyping of Helicobacter pylori from clinical specimens.

W Tee, J Lambert, R Smallwood, M Schembri, B C Ross and B Dwyer

Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Australia.

ABSTRACT

Ribotyping is a method used to type strains of bacteria by analyzing the restriction enzyme digestion patterns of the rRNA genes. This method was applied to 126 strains of Helicobacter pylori from 100 unrelated symptomatic patients who had endoscopies done and to 15 strains from 15 infected subjects from seven families. Analysis of the rRNA gene patterns revealed 77 distinct ribotypes from the 100 patients. From 15 of these subjects, isolates were recovered from antral mucosal biopsies at follow-up endoscopy. All follow-up isolates from the same patient, with one exception, yielded identical digest patterns. This patient had strains with two distinct digest patterns obtained from a set of three isolates cultured from biopsy specimens taken at different times. Five patients who had isolates recovered from different sites in the stomach (antrum, gastric body, duodenum, and pyloric channel) showed ribotyping patterns which were identical for each patient yet distinct between patients. In seven family groups studied, identical digest patterns were detected in members of two families, with variability in strains detected among members of the remaining families. This study demonstrates that ribotyping provides a useful, reliable, reproducible, and highly discriminatory typing scheme for the study of H. pylori infection.

J Clin Microbiol. 1992 June; 30(6): 1562-1567




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