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Abstract

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and automated amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) techniques with fluorescently labelled primers were used to type non-serotypable (NTHI) isolates. Eighty-seven isolates from healthy children attending day-care centres or living at orphanages in southern Poland were investigated. Through comparison of the AFLP data with RAPD analysis, it has been concluded that the discriminatory power of AFLP for NTHI typing is higher than RAPD. Generally, the NTHI isolates analysed were highly heterogeneous, as detected with a dIII/I AFLP genotyping scheme on intra/inter similarity levels of 94 and 96 % using Pearson's correlation coefficient. The range of similarity values found for isolates from children permanently residing at a particular day-care centre was much wider than that for isolates from orphanages. AFLP can efficiently access NTHI strain diversity and can monitor their turn-over for comparative typing in local and inter-local epidemiological investigations.

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