DNA probes demonstrate a single highly conserved strain of Mycobacterium avium infecting AIDS patients.

PubWeight™: 2.91‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMID 2562881)

Published in Lancet on January 14, 1989

Authors

S J Hampson1, F Portaels, J Thompson, E P Green, M T Moss, J Hermon-Taylor, J J McFadden

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, St George's Hospital Medical School, London.

Articles citing this

Insertion element IS987 from Mycobacterium bovis BCG is located in a hot-spot integration region for insertion elements in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Infect Immun (1991) 14.45

Epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria. Clin Microbiol Rev (1996) 10.34

The Mycobacterium avium complex. Clin Microbiol Rev (1993) 7.67

Agents of newly recognized or infrequently encountered mycobacterial diseases. Clin Microbiol Rev (1992) 5.11

Use of highly specific DNA probes and the polymerase chain reaction to detect Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Johne's disease. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 4.51

Sequence-based differentiation of strains in the Mycobacterium avium complex. J Bacteriol (1993) 3.63

A novel insertion element from Mycobacterium avium, IS1245, is a specific target for analysis of strain relatedness. J Clin Microbiol (1995) 3.20

Mycobacterium avium in the postgenomic era. Clin Microbiol Rev (2007) 2.65

Paratuberculosis. Clin Microbiol Rev (1994) 2.58

PCR assay based on DNA coding for 16S rRNA for detection and identification of mycobacteria in clinical samples. J Clin Microbiol (1995) 2.51

Biologically distinct subtypes of Mycobacterium avium differ in possession of insertion sequence IS901. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 2.18

Use of restriction fragment length polymorphism as a genetic marker for typing Mycobacterium avium strains. J Clin Microbiol (1995) 1.71

Characterization of isolates of Mycobacterium avium serotypes 4 and 8 from patients with AIDS by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 1.65

Detection of untreated mycobacteria by using polymerase chain reaction and specific DNA probes. J Clin Microbiol (1991) 1.65

Specific detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis by DNA hybridisation with a fragment of the insertion element IS900. Gut (1991) 1.63

Specific detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis DNA associated with granulomatous tissue in Crohn's disease. Gut (1994) 1.57

Mycobacteria in Crohn's disease: DNA probes identify the wood pigeon strain of Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis from human tissue. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 1.21

Use of different molecular typing techniques for bacteriological follow-up in a clinical trial with AIDS patients with Mycobacterium avium bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol (1997) 1.17

Serovars of Mycobacterium avium complex isolated from patients in Sweden. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 1.13

Effects of in vitro HIV-1 infection on mycobacterial growth in peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages. Infect Immun (2010) 1.02

The macrophage-induced gene mig as a marker for clinical pathogenicity and in vitro virulence of Mycobacterium avium complex strains. Infect Immun (1998) 1.01

Use of restriction fragment length polymorphisms resolved by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for subspecies identification of mycobacteria in the Mycobacterium avium complex and for isolation of DNA probes. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 0.96

AIDS and the lung. 1--AIDS, aprons, and elbow grease: preventing the nosocomial spread of human immunodeficiency virus and associated organisms. Thorax (1989) 0.95

T-cellular immune reactions (in macrophage inhibition factor assay) against Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Gut (1990) 0.90

Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium avium isolates by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and PCR. J Clin Microbiol (1999) 0.89

Rapid discrimination of Mycobacterium avium strains from AIDS patients by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. J Clin Microbiol (1997) 0.89

Observed differences in virulence-associated phenotypes between a human clinical isolate and a veterinary isolate of Mycobacterium avium. Infect Immun (1999) 0.83

Typing of human Mycobacterium avium isolates in Italy by IS1245-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. J Clin Microbiol (1998) 0.81

Oligonucleotide (GTG)5 as an epidemiological tool in the study of nontuberculous mycobacteria. J Clin Microbiol (1997) 0.79

Subtyping of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates by thin-layer chromatography--distribution of subtypes from patients with AIDS compared with clinically non-significant isolates. Epidemiol Infect (1994) 0.77

Comparison of in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare strains from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), patients without AIDS, and animal sources. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1990) 0.76

Application of RLEP real-time PCR for detection of M. leprae DNA in paraffin-embedded skin biopsy specimens for diagnosis of paucibacillary leprosy. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 0.76

Mycobacterial infections in AIDS. Can J Infect Dis (1991) 0.75

Genetic characterization of Mycobacterium avium isolates recovered from humans and animals in Australia. Epidemiol Infect (1996) 0.75

'Big MAC' attack. Can J Infect Dis (1993) 0.75

Articles by these authors

Apparatus for Collecting and Measuring the Gases evolved during Fermentation. Biochem J (1911) 157.76

Predominance of a single genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in countries of east Asia. J Clin Microbiol (1995) 15.19

Analysis of the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia, Tunisia, and The Netherlands: usefulness of DNA typing for global tuberculosis epidemiology. J Infect Dis (1995) 6.95

Sequence and characteristics of IS900, an insertion element identified in a human Crohn's disease isolate of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Nucleic Acids Res (1989) 6.92

Characterization of circulating T cells specific for tumor-associated antigens in melanoma patients. Nat Med (1999) 6.09

Characterization of rifampin-resistance in pathogenic mycobacteria. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1994) 5.64

Spectrum of immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Zaire. Lancet (1993) 5.52

A novel pathogenic taxon of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Canetti: characterization of an exceptional isolate from Africa. Int J Syst Bacteriol (1997) 5.28

Prescribing trends in psychotropic medications: primary care, psychiatry, and other medical specialties. JAMA (1998) 5.09

Diagnosis of Mycobacterium microti infections among humans by using novel genetic markers. J Clin Microbiol (1998) 4.83

Use of highly specific DNA probes and the polymerase chain reaction to detect Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Johne's disease. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 4.51

Crohn's disease-isolated mycobacteria are identical to Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, as determined by DNA probes that distinguish between mycobacterial species. J Clin Microbiol (1987) 4.47

Insects in the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection. Lancet (1999) 4.46

An integrative genomics approach to the reconstruction of gene networks in segregating populations. Cytogenet Genome Res (2004) 4.16

The effect of glucocorticosteroids on the kinetics of mononuclear phagocytes. J Exp Med (1970) 4.09

The PH domain: a common piece in the structural patchwork of signalling proteins. Trends Biochem Sci (1993) 3.89

Rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in sputum and biopsy specimens from tuberculosis patients by PCR and line probe assay. Tuber Lung Dis (1995) 3.83

Phosphoenolpyruvate and 2-phosphoglycerate: endogenous energy source(s) for sugar accumulation by starved cells of Streptococcus lactis. J Bacteriol (1977) 3.73

A case of cholera in Texas, 1973. Am J Epidemiol (1974) 3.71

Proposed minimal standards for the genus Mycobacterium and for description of new slowly growing Mycobacterium species. Int J Syst Bacteriol (1992) 3.65

Efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of native-valve endocarditis. Lancet (1992) 3.58

Evaluation of the INNO-LiPA Rif. TB assay, a reverse hybridization assay for the simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and its resistance to rifampin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1997) 3.55

Identification of Mycobacterium species by using amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis. J Clin Microbiol (1993) 3.38

The use of DNA probes identifying restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms to examine the Mycobacterium avium complex. Mol Microbiol (1987) 3.23

Molecular interactions between Anopheles stephensi midgut cells and Plasmodium berghei: the time bomb theory of ookinete invasion of mosquitoes. EMBO J (2000) 3.22

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis DNA in Crohn's disease tissue. Gut (1992) 3.22

Disturbance of cerebral function in people exposed to drinking water contaminated with aluminium sulphate: retrospective study of the Camelford water incident. BMJ (1999) 3.16

Heterogeneity of malignant cells from a human colonic carcinoma. Cancer Res (1981) 3.12

Pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in Zaire. A controlled trial of treatment for either 6 or 12 months. N Engl J Med (1995) 3.09

Inadequacy of the current WHO re-treatment regimen in a central Siberian prison: treatment failure and MDR-TB. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (1999) 3.08

Increased antifungal activity of L-733,560, a water-soluble, semisynthetic pneumocandin, is due to enhanced inhibition of cell wall synthesis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1994) 2.99

Induction of human IgE synthesis in B cells by mast cells and basophils. Nature (1993) 2.97

Evaluation of a live, cold-passaged, temperature-sensitive, respiratory syncytial virus vaccine candidate in infancy. J Infect Dis (2000) 2.90

Uteroplacental ischemia results in proteinuric hypertension and elevated sFLT-1. Kidney Int (2007) 2.87

Innovation in general practice: is the gap between training and non-training practices getting wider? Br J Gen Pract (1995) 2.74

A central role for P48/45 in malaria parasite male gamete fertility. Cell (2001) 2.73

A locus for febrile seizures (FEB3) maps to chromosome 2q23-24. Ann Neurol (1999) 2.73

Large scale association analysis of novel genetic loci for coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2009) 2.71

Detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from diverse countries by a commercial line probe assay as an initial indicator of multidrug resistance. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2000) 2.71

Inducible nuclear expression of newly synthesized I kappa B alpha negatively regulates DNA-binding and transcriptional activities of NF-kappa B. Mol Cell Biol (1995) 2.69

Epidemiology of bacterial endocarditis in The Netherlands. I. Patient characteristics. Arch Intern Med (1992) 2.67

IS901, a new member of a widespread class of atypical insertion sequences, is associated with pathogenicity in Mycobacterium avium. Mol Microbiol (1991) 2.64

Clinico-neuropathological correlation of Alzheimer's disease in a community-based case series. J Am Geriatr Soc (1999) 2.63

stevor and rif are Plasmodium falciparum multicopy gene families which potentially encode variant antigens. Mol Biochem Parasitol (1998) 2.58

Acquired precursors of cutaneous malignant melanoma. The familial dysplastic nevus syndrome. N Engl J Med (1985) 2.54

The British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit: an evaluation of the first 3 years. Eye (Lond) (2003) 2.50

IS900 PCR to detect Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in retail supplies of whole pasteurized cows' milk in England and Wales. Appl Environ Microbiol (1996) 2.48

A simple PCR method for rapid genotype analysis of Mycobacterium ulcerans. J Clin Microbiol (2000) 2.43

In vivo regulation of glycolysis and characterization of sugar: phosphotransferase systems in Streptococcus lactis. J Bacteriol (1978) 2.42

Embryonic erythroid differentiation in the human leukemic cell line K562. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1981) 2.42

Differentiating between audit and research: postal survey of health authorities' views. BMJ (1999) 2.41

Regulation of methyl-beta-d-thiogalactopyranoside-6-phosphate accumulation in Streptococcus lactis by exclusion and expulsion mechanisms. J Bacteriol (1981) 2.36

Carcinoembryonic antigen family members CEACAM6 and CEACAM7 are differentially expressed in normal tissues and oppositely deregulated in hyperplastic colorectal polyps and early adenomas. Am J Pathol (2000) 2.34

Characteristics and energy requirements of an alpha-aminoisobutyric acid transport system in Streptococcus lactis. J Bacteriol (1976) 2.32

Geographically distinct isolates of Mycobacterium leprae exhibit no genotypic diversity by restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis. Mol Microbiol (1990) 2.25

The in-training examination in internal medicine. Ann Intern Med (1994) 2.23

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: patterns of isolation. A multi-country retrospective survey. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2004) 2.20

The phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system in gram-positive bacteria: properties, mechanism, and regulation. Crit Rev Microbiol (1988) 2.19

Biologically distinct subtypes of Mycobacterium avium differ in possession of insertion sequence IS901. J Clin Microbiol (1992) 2.18

Loss-of-function mutations in the Nav1.7 gene underlie congenital indifference to pain in multiple human populations. Clin Genet (2007) 2.15

Epidemiology and clinical impact of parainfluenza virus infections in otherwise healthy infants and young children < 5 years old. J Infect Dis (1997) 2.12

Results of a standardised regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Bangladesh. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2004) 2.08

Polymerase chain reaction detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium subsp silvaticum in long term cultures from Crohn's disease and control tissues. Gut (1992) 2.06

Nuclear retention of IkappaBalpha protects it from signal-induced degradation and inhibits nuclear factor kappaB transcriptional activation. J Biol Chem (1999) 2.05

A microbiological comparison between acute and complicated appendicitis. Clin Infect Dis (1992) 2.02

Functions of Na+ and K+ in the active transport of -aminoisobutyric acid in a marine pseudomonad. J Biol Chem (1971) 2.02

Prospective long-term study of vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of refractory seizures. Epilepsia (2000) 2.02

The effect of glucocorticosteroids on the proliferation and kinetics of promonocytes and monocytes of the bone marrow. J Exp Med (1973) 2.01

Pulmonary tuberculosis in prisons of the ex-USSR state Georgia: results of a nation-wide prevalence survey among sentenced inmates. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2000) 2.01

Nutrition and metabolism of marine bacteria. XVII. Ion-dependent retention of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and its relation to Na+ dependent transport in a marine pseudomonad. J Biol Chem (1969) 2.00

Differing virulence of H1N1 and H3N2 influenza strains. Am J Epidemiol (1980) 1.97

Alternative splicing generates a secreted form of N-CAM in muscle and brain. Cell (1988) 1.97

The thermal resistance of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in raw milk under conditions simulating pasteurization. J Vet Diagn Invest (1993) 1.96

Detection and identification of mycobacteria by DNA amplification and oligonucleotide-specific capture plate hybridization. J Clin Microbiol (1995) 1.94

Lactose metabolism in Streptococcus lactis: phosphorylation of galactose and glucose moieties in vivo. J Bacteriol (1979) 1.91

Deletion of purE attenuates Brucella melitensis infection in mice. Infect Immun (1996) 1.88

Genes necessary for expression of a virulence determinant and for transmission of Plasmodium falciparum are located on a 0.3-megabase region of chromosome 9. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 1.88

Regulation of lactose-phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system and beta-D-phosphogalactoside galactohydrolase activities in Lactobacillus casei. J Bacteriol (1983) 1.88

Use of 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and 14C fluorography in studies of glycolysis and regulation of pyruvate kinase in Streptococcus lactis. J Bacteriol (1984) 1.87

An alternative interpretation of nanobacteria-induced biomineralization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2000) 1.87

Evaluation of two live, cold-passaged, temperature-sensitive respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in chimpanzees and in human adults, infants, and children. J Infect Dis (1997) 1.86

Evaluation of mycobacteria growth indicator tube for direct and indirect drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from respiratory specimens in a Siberian prison hospital. J Clin Microbiol (2001) 1.85

Rapid identification of Mycobacteria to the species level using INNO-LiPA Mycobacteria, a reverse hybridization assay. J Clin Microbiol (2001) 1.85

Effects of decontamination methods and culture conditions on viability of Mycobacterium ulcerans in the BACTEC system. J Clin Microbiol (1998) 1.85

Catabolite inhibition and sequential metabolism of sugars by Streptococcus lactis. J Bacteriol (1978) 1.84

A soluble form of B cell maturation antigen, a receptor for the tumor necrosis factor family member APRIL, inhibits tumor cell growth. J Exp Med (2000) 1.83

Relationship between topotecan systemic exposure and tumor response in human neuroblastoma xenografts. J Natl Cancer Inst (1998) 1.82

Comparison of two PCRs for detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans. J Clin Microbiol (1999) 1.82

Role of IkappaBalpha ubiquitination in signal-induced activation of NFkappaB in vivo. J Biol Chem (1996) 1.82

Effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on catecholamine and interleukin-2 levels in humans: clinical implications. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (1999) 1.81

Novel phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent futile cycle in Streptococcus lactis: 2-deoxy-D-glucose uncouples energy production from growth. J Bacteriol (1982) 1.78