IDENTIFICATION OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT MYCOBACTERIUM OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS (MOTT) SPECIES BY REAL-TIME PCR COUPLED WITH A HIGH-RESOLUTION MELTING SYSTEM
Abstract
A real-time PCR coupled with a high-resolution melting curve assay for identifying clinically relevant MOTT species was developed and evaluated using 6 reference strains and 186 Culture isolates. Concordant results were obtained for all 186 isolates of nontuberculous mycobacteria. Our results showed that this real-time PCR -HRM assay is an effective tool for the mycobacterial identification from cultures isolates.
Key words: MOTT (Mycobacterium other than tuberculosis), HRM (high-resolution melting), Real time PCR.
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