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ArticleJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)2015

Performance of a real-time PCR assay for the rapid identification of Mycobacterium species.

Hye-young Wang, Hyunjung Kim, Sunghyun Kim, Do-kyoon Kim, Sang-Nae Cho, Hyeyoung Lee

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Article in Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hye-young WangM&D, Inc., Wonju Eco Environmental Technology Center, Wonju, 200-722, Republic of Korea.
Hyunjung Kim
Sunghyun Kim
Do-kyoon Kim
Sang-Nae Cho
Hyeyoung Lee
Yonsei University · KRCatholic University of Korea · KRUniversity of Bahrain · BH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycobacteria cause a variety of illnesses that differ in severity and public health implications. The differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) from nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is of primary importance for infection control and choice of antimicrobial therapy. The diagnosis of diseases caused by NTM is difficult because NTM species are prevalent in the environment and because they have fastidious properties. In the present study, we evaluated 279 clinical isolates grown in liquid culture provided by The Catholic University of Korea, St. Vincent's Hospital using real-time PCR based on mycobacterial rpoB gene sequences. The positive rate of real-time PCR assay accurately discriminated 100% (195/195) and 100% (84/84) between MTB and NTM species. Comparison of isolates identified using the MolecuTech REBA Myco-ID(®) and Real Myco-ID® were completely concordant except for two samples. Two cases that were identified as mixed infection (M. intracellulare-M. massiliense and M. avium-M. massiliense co-infection) by PCRREBA assay were only detected using M. abscessus-specific probes by Real Myco-ID(®). Among a total of 84 cases, the most frequently identified NTM species were M. intracellulare (n=38, 45.2%), M. avium (n=18, 23.7%), M. massiliense (n=10, 13.2%), M. fortuitum (n=5, 6%), M. abscessus (n=3, 3.9%), M. gordonae (n=3, 3.9%), M. kansasii (n=2, 2.4%), M. mucogenicum (n=2, 2.4%), and M. chelonae (n= 1, 1.2%). Real Myco-ID(®) is an efficient tool for the rapid detection of NTM species as well as MTB and sensitive and specific and comparable to conventional methods.

Indexed as

AdultAgedBacterial ProteinsCoinfectionDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousMycobacterium tuberculosisNontuberculous MycobacteriaReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and SpecificitySequence Analysis, DNASputumBacterial ProteinsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesrpoB protein, Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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PMID25557479
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