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Corynebacterium
Findings from A. Dezoysa and co-authors broaden understanding of Corynebacterium
December 23rd, 2008
"The diphtheria epidemic in the Russian Federation in the 1990s made diphtheria a focus of global concern once again. The development of rapid and reproducible typing methods for the molecular characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae has become a priority in order to be able to monitor the spread of this important pathogen on a global scale," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology report. "We report on a comparison of four molecular typing methods (ribotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE], random amplification of polymorphic DNA [RAPD], and amplified fragment length polymorphism [AFLP]) for the characterization of C....
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-23)
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