Multiple isolates from Aids patients: aspects of an analysis by a genotypic marker and antimicrobial susceptibilities variations

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Maria Helena Féres Saad²  Maria Alice Telles¹  Fátima Porfirio¹  Lucilaine Ferrazoli¹  Leila De Souza Fonseca¹  Warren Johnson Jr¹  Lee W Riley¹ 

[1] ,Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Departamento de Medicina Tropical Laboratório de HanseníaseRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: Mycobacterium avium;    polyclonal infection;    susceptibility test;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762000000500021

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Twenty-one Mycobacterium avium multisolates, from ten human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, were typed by restriction fragment length polymorphism using as marker the IS1245 and characterized by minimum inhibitory concentration for nine different antibiotics. Two out of four patients harboring multisolates with different fingerprint profile, were therefore considered as having a polyclonal infection, since their isolates were taken from sterile site. This result confirms that polyclonal infection caused by M. avium occurs with a nonnegligenciable frequency. Analyzing the multisolates susceptibility profile of each patient it was observed that most of them were infected with strains having appreciably different antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, no matter what the genotypic pattern of the strains was. These results have strong implication for the treatment of the patients.

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