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SUBMITTER: Konig B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1169134 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
König Brigitte B Tammer Ina I Sollich Veronika V König Wolfgang W
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050701 7
To establish the exact pathogenic role of Mycobacterium abscessus in cystic fibrosis (CF), molecular tests are required for accurate identification. Forty-eight M. abscessus isolates from seven patients with CF were analyzed by sequence analysis for sequence variants within the hsp65 gene and the 16S-23S intergenic sequence (ITS). We detected two different hsp65 genes and correspondingly two ITS sequevars belonging to M. abscessus type I and type II. ...[more]