AUTOMATED LASER FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS OF RANDOMLY AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA - A RAPID METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING NOSOCOMIAL TRANSMISSION OF ACINETOBACTER-BAUMANNII

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GRUNDMANN, H
SCHNEIDER, C
TICHY, HV
SIMON, R
KLARE, I
HARTUNG, D
DASCHNER, FD
机构
[1] TUV ENERGIE & UMWELT GMBH,FACHGRP BIOL SICHERHEIT,D-79108 FREIBURG,GERMANY
[2] ROBERT KOCH INST,D-38855 WERNIGERODE,GERMANY
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10.1099/00222615-43-6-446
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
A rapid method for genotyping Acinetobacter baumannii based on PCR-fingerprinting with fluorescent primers was evaluated, Automated laser fluorescence analysis (ALFA) enabled on-line generation of high resolution DNA-fingerprints during polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) products. The results were in concordance with macro-restriction fragment patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of ApaI digests of chromosomal DNA. RAPD-ALFA was able to identify homologous strains suggestive of horizontal transmission in < 8 h after colonies were obtained on solid media, whereas PFGE analysis took c. 90 h. Speed and digitised data format renders RAPD-ALFA attractive for routine in-house epidemiological screening of isolates from intensive care and other hospital units.
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