Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Biology
Abstract
The RAPD (or AP-PCR) DNA fingerprinting method was used to distinguish among clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium whose long term carriage is associated with gastritis, peptic ulcers and gastric carcinomas. This method uses arbitrarily chosen oligonucleotides to prime DNA sythesis from genomic sites to which they are fortuitously matched, or almost matched. Most 10-nt primers with > 60% G + C yielded strain-specific arrays of up to 15 prominent fragments, as did most longer ( > 17-nt) primers, whereas most 10-nt primers with 50% G +C did not. Each of 64 independent H.pylori isolates, 60 of which were from patients in the same hospital, was distinguishable with a single RAPD primer, which suggests a high level of DNA sequence diversity within this species. In contrast, isolates from initial and followup biopsies were indistinguishable in each of three cases tested.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/20.19.5137
Publication Info
Published in Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 20, Issue 19, 1992, pages 5137-5142.
APA Citation
Akopyanz, N., Bukanov, N., Westblom, T., Kresovich, S., & Berg, D. (1992). DNA Diversity Among Clinical Isolates of Helicobacter pylori Detected by PCR-Based RAPD Fingerprinting. Nucleic Acids Research, 20(19), 5137–5142. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/20.19.5137
Rights
© Nucleic Acids Research 1992, Oxford University Press.