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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2013

Shared Mycobacterium avium genotypes observed among unlinked clinical and environmental isolates.

M Ashworth Dirac, Kris M Weigel, Mitchell A Yakrus, Annie L Becker, Hui-Ling Chen, Gina Fridley, Arthur Sikora, Cate Speake, Elizabeth D Hilborn, Stacy Pfaller and 1 more

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11 authors.

M Ashworth DiracUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. madirac@uw.edu
Kris M Weigel
Mitchell A Yakrus
Annie L Becker
Hui-Ling Chen
Gina Fridley
Arthur Sikora
Cate Speake
Elizabeth D Hilborn
Stacy Pfaller
Gerard A Cangelosi

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University of Washington Medical Scientist Training Program: MD/PhDT32GM007266 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HORWITZ, MARSHALL S. · 1985 to 2023
$30.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007266NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM07266
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Abstract

Our understanding of the sources of Mycobacterium avium infection is partially based on genotypic matching of pathogen isolates from cases and environmental sources. These approaches assume that genotypic identity is rare in isolates from unlinked cases or sources. To test this assumption, a high-resolution PCR-based genotyping approach, large-sequence polymorphism (LSP)-mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR), was selected and used to analyze clinical and environmental isolates of M. avium from geographically diverse sources. Among 127 clinical isolates from seven locations in North America, South America, and Europe, 42 genotypes were observed. Among 12 of these genotypes, matches were seen in isolates from apparently unlinked patients in two or more geographic locations. Six of the 12 were also observed in environmental isolates. A subset of these isolates was further analyzed by alternative strain genotyping methods, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and MIRU-VNTR, which confirmed the existence of geographically dispersed strain genotypes. These results suggest that caution should be exercised in interpreting high-resolution genotypic matches as evidence for an acquisition event.

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Environmental MicrobiologyGenetic VariationDNA, BacterialEuropeGenotypeHumansMolecular EpidemiologyMolecular Sequence DataMolecular TypingMycobacterium aviumNorth AmericaSequence Analysis, DNASouth AmericaTuberculosisDNA, Bacterial

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PMID23851084
PMCPMC3754150

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