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Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Greek patients with sarcoidosis by Spoligotyping.

Gazouli M, Ikonomopoulos J, Koundourakis A, Bartos M, Pavlik I, Overduin P, Kremer K, Gorgoulis V, Kittas C

Department of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece. mgazouli@med.uoa.gr

Spoligotyping was undertaken with 38 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Greek sarcoidosis patients and 31 isolates from patients with tuberculosis. Fifty percent of the isolates from sarcoidosis patients and 16.13% of the isolates from patients with tuberculosis were represented by a unique pattern, whereas the remaining isolates belonged to seven shared types. Interestingly, half of the isolates from sarcoidosis patients did not resemble the spoligotypes of the isolates from patients with tuberculosis, most of which pertained to shared spoligotypes.

Published 7 September 2005 in J Clin Microbiol, 43(9): 4858-61.
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