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Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Letter

Profiling Mycobacterium ulcerans with hsp65

Sylvia Cardoso Leão*Comments to Author , Jorge Luiz Mello Sampaio*, Anandi Martin†, Juan Carlos Palomino†, and Françoise Portaels†
Author affiliations: *Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; †Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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Table

Origin of strains used in this study*

ITM no. Species identification Geographic origin Source Providers† PRA-hsp65
960657 Mycobacterium ulcerans Angola Human ITM I
960658 M. ulcerans Angola Human ITM I
5142 M. ulcerans Australia Human ATCC 19423 I
5147 M. ulcerans Australia Human JS I
8849 M. ulcerans Australia Human DD 8471/69 I
9540 M. ulcerans Australia Human DD 11098 I
9550 M. ulcerans Australia Human DD 17679 I
940339 M. ulcerans Australia Human ITM I
1441 M. ulcerans Benin Insect ITM I
9146 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
940512 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
940886 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
970010 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
970104 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
970111 M. ulcerans Benin Human ITM I
980912 M. ulcerans China Human W.R Faber II
5150 M. ulcerans D.R.Congo Human ITM I
5151 M. ulcerans D.R.Congo Human ITM I
5155 M. ulcerans D.R.Congo Human ITM I
7922 M. ulcerans French Guiana Human IPP 1410900 I
970321 M. ulcerans Ghana Human ITM I
970359 M. ulcerans Ghana Human ITM I
970483 M. ulcerans Ghana Human ITM I
940511 M. ulcerans Côte d'Ivoire Human ITM I
940662 M. ulcerans Côte d'Ivoire Human ITM I
940815 M. ulcerans Côte d'Ivoire Human ITM I
941328 M. ulcerans Malaysia Human K. Jackson 18651 I
5114 M. ulcerans Mexico Human PL I
5143 M. ulcerans Mexico Human ITM I
9537 M. ulcerans Papua New Guinea Human DD 11878 I
941331 M. ulcerans Papua New Guinea Human ITM I
842 M. ulcerans Surinam Human VK 701357 I
970680 M. ulcerans Togo Human ITM I
8756 M. shinshuense Japan Human ATCC 33728 II
1027 M. marinum France Human VV IPP 99363 I
1026 M. marinum France Human VV IPP2000372 I

*PCR restriction enzyme analysis–hsp65 patterns: I [BstEII and HaeIII (bp) of 235/210/0 and 145/105/80] and II [BstEII and HaeIII (bp) of 235/210/0 and 190/105/80].
†ATCC, American Type Culture Collection; ITM, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; IPP, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; VK, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; JS, J Standford, School of Pathology, London, United Kingdom; DD, D Dawson, Laboratory of Microbiology and Pathology, Queensland Health, Australia; PL, P Lavalle, Centro Dermatologico Pascua, Mexico City, Mexico; VV, V Vincent, IPP, Paris, France.

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