TY - JOUR
T1 - Discordant molecular characterization results in a Mycobacterium avium complex strain isolated from an AIDS patient
AU - Huang, Tsi Shu
AU - Lee, Susan Shin Jung
AU - Chen, Yao Shen
AU - Tu, Hui Zin
AU - Huang, Wen Kuei
AU - Liu, Yung Ching
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - This report describes an unusual strain of Mycobacterium avium complex isolated from the sputum of an immunocompromised AIDS patient, which did not react with the MAC probe of the BDProbe Tec system, but was identified as Mycobacterium intracellulare by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Its PCR restriction-enzyme analysis pattern was compatible with an allelic variant of M. avium. It was scotochromogenic, slow-growing and phenotypically identified as Mycobacterium scrofulaceum. Its clinical significance is not certain.
AB - This report describes an unusual strain of Mycobacterium avium complex isolated from the sputum of an immunocompromised AIDS patient, which did not react with the MAC probe of the BDProbe Tec system, but was identified as Mycobacterium intracellulare by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Its PCR restriction-enzyme analysis pattern was compatible with an allelic variant of M. avium. It was scotochromogenic, slow-growing and phenotypically identified as Mycobacterium scrofulaceum. Its clinical significance is not certain.
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U2 - 10.1099/jmm.0.45802-0
DO - 10.1099/jmm.0.45802-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 15947434
AN - SCOPUS:21244491982
SN - 0022-2615
VL - 54
SP - 681
EP - 683
JO - Journal of Medical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Medical Microbiology
IS - 7
ER -
