PCR-Based methods for genotyping viridans group streptococci.

Abstract:

:Standard repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP)-PCR, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR, and Salmonella enteritidis repetitive element-PCR methods for bacterial strain typing were performed with DNA extracted by boiling members of each of the currently recognized species of human viridans group streptococci. Each of the methods was reproducible. The unique isolates (n = 72) from 15 species of viridans group streptococci were readily distinguishable, with no two isolates showing greater than 90% per cent similarity. The majority of strains exhibited much less than 90% similarity. Isolates identical by REP-PCR were also identical by the other two methods. These PCR-based typing methods, although they do not permit determination of the species of the isolates, are simple to perform and are suitable for clinical and ecological investigations of viridans group streptococci.

journal_name

J Clin Microbiol

authors

Alam S,Brailsford SR,Whiley RA,Beighton D

doi

10.1128/JCM.37.9.2772-2776.1999

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-09-01 00:00:00

pages

2772-6

issue

9

eissn

0095-1137

issn

1098-660X

journal_volume

37

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