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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 1998, p. 3051-3054, Vol. 36, No. 10
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

IS1245 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing of Mycobacterium avium Isolates: Proposal for Standardization

Dick van Soolingen,1,* Jeanett Bauer,2 Viviana Ritacco,3 Sylvia Cardoso Leão,4 Ivo Pavlik,5 Veronique Vincent,6 Nalin Rastogi,7 Andrea Gori,8 Thomas Bodmer,9 Carlo Garzelli,10 and Maria J. Garcia11

Diagnostic Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands1; Department of Mycobacteriology, Division of Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark2; Pan American Institute for Food Protection and Zoonoses, Martinez 1640, Argentina3; Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 862.3, Andar, São Paulo, Brazil4; Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 32 Brno, Czech Republic5; Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France6; Unité de la Tuberculose et des Mycobactéries, Institut Pasteur, 97165 Pointe-à-Pitre Cedex, Guadeloupe, French West Indies7; Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, 20157 Milan,8 and Department of Biomedicine, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa,10 Italy; Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland9; and Departmento de M. Preventiva, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma, 28029 Madrid, Spain11

Received 13 April 1998/Returned for modification 6 June 1998/Accepted 4 July 1998

Mycobacterium avium has become a major human pathogen, primarily due to the emergence of the AIDS epidemic. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing, using insertion sequence IS1245 as a probe, provides a powerful tool in the molecular epidemiology of M. avium-related infections and will facilitate well-founded studies into the sources of M. avium infections in animal and environmental reservoirs. The standardization of this technique allows computerization of IS1245 RFLP patterns for comparison on a local level and the establishment of M. avium DNA fingerprint databases for interlaboratory comparison. Moreover, by combining international DNA typing results of M. avium complex isolates from a broad spectrum of sources, long-lasting questions on the epidemiology of this major agent of mycobacterial infections will be answered.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Mycobacteria Department, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 30 2742363. Fax: 31 30 2744418. E-mail: D.van.Soolingen{at}rivm.nl.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 1998, p. 3051-3054, Vol. 36, No. 10
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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