Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 65, Issue 4 , Pages 358-364 , December 2009

Molecular identification of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolates from pulmonary specimens of patients in the State of Pará, Amazon region, Brazil

  • Ana Roberta Fusco da Costa

      Affiliations

    • Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro no. 92, Belém, Pará 66.055-240, Pará, Brazil
    • Seção de Bacteriologia e Micologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Pará 67030-000, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Seção de Bacteriologia e Micologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, BR 316, KM 7, Ananindeua, Pará 67030-000, Brazil. Tel.: +55-91-3214-2116; fax: +55-91-3214-2114/Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro no. 92, Belém, Pará 66.055-240, Brazil, Tel.: +55-91-3241-4681; fax: +55-3215-2354.
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  • Maria Luiza Lopes

      Affiliations

    • Seção de Bacteriologia e Micologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Pará 67030-000, Brazil
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  • Sylvia Cardoso Leão

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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  • Maria Paula da Cruz Schneider

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Pará, Pará, Brazil
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  • Maísa Silva de Sousa

      Affiliations

    • Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro no. 92, Belém, Pará 66.055-240, Pará, Brazil
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  • Philip Noel Suffys

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Medicina Tropical, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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  • Tereza Cristina de Oliveira Corvelo

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Pará, Pará, Brazil
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  • Karla Valéria Batista Lima

      Affiliations

    • Seção de Bacteriologia e Micologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Pará 67030-000, Brazil

Received 1 May 2009 ,Accepted 11 August 2009.

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PII: S0732-8893(09)00332-0

doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.08.003

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 65, Issue 4 , Pages 358-364 , December 2009