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Characterization of Coccidioides immitis isolates by restriction fragment length polymorphisms.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis.

ABSTRACT

The marked increase in the number of cases of coccidioidomycosis in California in 1992 led to a study of isolates from various patients and environmental sources by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. Of 15 different isolates, most of the isolates (13 of 15) from California and 1 from Venezuela yielded one main RFLP pattern with evidence of two subgroups. The other two isolates (both from patients in the San Joaquin Valley of California) yielded a different RFLP pattern.

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