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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 369-374 |
Allele-specific duplex polymerase chain reaction to differentiate Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies and to detect highly clarithromycin-resistant isolates
HY Kim1, SY Lee1, BJ Kim2, YH Kook3
1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul 110 799, Republic of Korea
2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Endemic Diseases; Seoul National University Medical Research Center; Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110 799, Republic of Korea
3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Endemic Diseases; Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110 799, Republic of Korea
Correspondence Address:
Y H Kook
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Endemic Diseases; Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110 799
Republic of Korea
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DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.188355
On the basis of the structural differences of erm, we used a duplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to differentiate Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus and subsp. massiliense isolates and to detect the point mutations of 23S rRNA gene that confer a high level of resistance to clarithromycin. Subsp. massiliense strains occupying almost half of the clinical isolates can be simply identified, and their clarithromycin susceptibility can be rapidly determined.
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