We describe the use of two insertion sequence elements (ISFtu1 and ISFtu2) in Francisella tularensis to type strains by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). The RFLP profiles of 17 epidemiologically unrelated isolates were determined and compared. Our results showed that RFLP profiles can be used to assign F. tularensis strains into five main groups corresponding to strains of F. tu...

We compared two methods to generate polymorphic markers to investigate the population genetics of Trypanosoma evansi; random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analyses. AFLP accessed many more polymorphisms than RAPD. Cluster analysis of the AFLP data showed that 12 T.evansi isolates were very similar ('type A') whereas 2 isolates dif...

Simple double repetitive element polymerase chain reaction (MaDRE-PCR) and Pvu II-IS1245 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing methods were used to type 41 Mycobacterium avium isolates obtained from 14 AIDS inpatients and 10 environment and animals specimens identified among 53 mycobacteria isolated from 237 food, chicken, and pig. All environmental and animals strains showed o...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) transmission is influenced by patient-related risk, environment and bacteriological factors. We determined the risk factors associated with cluster size of IS6110 RFLP based genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates from Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil. METHODS Cross-sectional study of new TB cases identified in the metropolitan area of Vitoria, Brazi...

Over recent years, there has been an increasing acknowledgment of the diversity that exists among Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. To facilitate comparative studies aimed at deciphering the relevance of this diversity to human disease, an unambiguous and easily interpretable method of strain classification is required. Presently, the most effective means of assigning isolates into ...

Epidemiologic relatedness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Arkansas residents diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1992-1993 was assessed using IS6110- and pTBN12-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and epidemiologic investigation. Patients with isolates having similar IS6110 patterns had medical records reviewed and were interviewed to identify epidemiologic links. Compl...

Objective-To characterise Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates by restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in ribosomal RNA genes. Design-Generation of RFLP patterns by HincII restriction of rRNA genes followed by hybridisation with a nonradioactive labelled broad spectrum 16 + 23S rRNA gene probe. This typing method was developed and compared with MAb based serotyping. Specimens-Forty three...

The diagnosis of mutations that are responsible for human genetic diseases is important, and several molecular biology techniques based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (1), have been specially developed for this purpose (2-8) . For some of these techniques it is the presence or the absence of a PCR product that constitutes the analytical step, ie proves the presence of the mutation. In order...

a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) test was performed to investigate the allele frequencies of the insulin-like growth factor (igf1 and igf2 genes) in 90 broilerchickens. a 793 bp fragment of igf1 gene and 1146 bp fragment of igf2 gene were amplified and digested with hinfi and hsp92ii restriction enzymes,respectively. two types of alleles of a and b...

Forty-six isolates of Penicillium marneffei were differentiated into two DNA types on the basis of their restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Of the 22 human isolates of P. marneffei, 16 (72.7%) were type I and 6 (27.3%) were type II. Of the 23 bamboo rat isolates, 20 from Rhizomys sumatrensis were type I and 3 from Cannomys badius were type II. The soil isolate was type II. These data re...