Streptococcus uberis is considered one of the most important pathogens associated with bovine mastitis. While traditionally acknowledged as an environmental pathogen, S. uberis has been shown to adopt a contagious epidemiological pattern in several dairy herds. Since different control strategies are employed depending on the mode of transmission, in-depth studies of S. uberis populations are es...

A nonradioactive dot blot hybridization assay for human parvovirus B19 DNA was set up by using a biotin-labeled DNA probe and streptavidin-alkaline phosphatase conjugate. The assay was used to examine 4,895 specimens referred for B19 virus diagnosis during 1987. Of 48 specimens that gave positive reactions for B19 DNA, 41 were confirmed virus positive by electron microscopy (n = 36), radioimmun...

We report on a reverse line blot (RLB) assay, utilizing fungal species-specific oligonucleotide probes to hybridize with internal transcribed spacer 2 region sequences amplified using a nested panfungal PCR. Reference and clinical strains of 16 Candida species (116 strains), Cryptococcus neoformans (five strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, five strains of Cryptococcus neoformans...

Spoligotyping is a tool for the molecular characterization/typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains based on target sequences (spacers) in the direct repeat (DR) region (14). The standard spoligotyping assay involves the hybridization of amplified sample DNA to nylon membrane-immobilized oligonucleotides whose sequences are representative of 43 spacer regions. Variations in t...