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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2001, p. 1175-1177, Vol. 39, No. 3
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.3.1175-1177.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Israel

M. Ravins,1 H. Bercovier,1 D. Chemtob,2 Y. Fishman,1 and G. Rahav1,*

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School,1 and Department of Tuberculosis & AIDS, Ministry of Health,2 Jerusalem, Israel

Received 16 August 2000/Returned for modification 22 October 2000/Accepted 9 January 2001

Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with IS6110 and DR-r probes was used to study 69 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from Israeli patients and new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. DNA fingerprinting identified unique patterns for almost all isolates, indicating that most patients were infected with a unique strain imported from their country of origin and that their latent infection was reactivated in Israel.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, P.O. Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel. Phone: 972-2-6776594. Fax: 972-2-6419545. E-mail: rahavg{at}md2.huji.ac.il.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2001, p. 1175-1177, Vol. 39, No. 3
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.3.1175-1177.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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