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1Departament de Biologia Ambiental, Microbiologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. abe@gbf.de
Abstract:
Detailed characterization of the genetic variability among strains belonging to Pseudomonas stutzeri was achieved using different rapid molecular typing methods based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Southern blot and Western blot. Consensus motifs complementary to fragments of repetitive elements dispersed throughout the genomes of bacteria were used as primers and allowed differentiation at subspecies levels. Further and simple differentiation was also achieved based on the direct amplification of spacer regions between 16S and 23S rRNA, combined with single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis of the generated fragments. These methods are fast, sensitive, reliable for determining relationships, and have demonstrated a great genetic diversity among the strains of Ps. stutzeri studied in agreement with the heterogeneous phenotypic traits of the species.
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