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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 09 1997, 2393-2397, Vol 35, No. 9
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Honduras

L Pineda-Garcia, A Ferrera and SE Hoffner
Department of Microbiology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, and Instituto Nacional Del Torax, Tegucigalpa.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 84 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Honduras were characterized by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Seventy-three different IS6110 patterns were found; 63 of these were unique and 10 were shared by two to three strains each. Thus, no ongoing spread of any specific clone of bacteria could be demonstrated.

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