Restriction fragment length polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from various regions of India, using direct repeat probe.
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ABSTRACT
Intraspecies differentiation was studied on 68 M. tuberculosis strains obtained from 6 states of India by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) using a direct repeat probe (DR probe) hybridised with Alu I digest of DNA. Most strains showed polymorphism based patterns that comprised between 2 to 7 bands and were grouped into 26 RFLP types. Of the 11 strains tested from Amritsar, 8 were RFLP type 5; the remaining 3 were of type 11 and were exclusively confined to this region. The strains from other regions were more heterogeneous. We confirm that DR-associated RFLP can be an excellent tool for the differentiation of M. tuberculosis strains. Depending on their geographical origin, these strains can be differentiated to a large extent by DR fingerprinting.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
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DNA, Bacterial
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Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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DNA Fingerprinting
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Language:
English
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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