HYBRIDIZATION PROBES WHICH DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE ACTINOMADURA MADURAE GROUP OF BACTERIA AND MADUROMYCETES

摘要

The invention provides a method to differentiate between bacteria from the Actinomadura madurae group of bacteria and the Maduromycetes taxa using two nucleic acid probes that are complementary to a conserved region of the Maduromycetes 16S rRNA genes and to a conserved region of the Actinomadura madurae group of bacteria 16S rRNA genes, respectively. The probes permit the rapid detection of DNA coding for the 16S rRNA in a sample differentiating the Actinomadura madurae group of bacteria from Maduromycetes within the Actinomycetales order as well as the A. madurae group of bacteria and Maduromycetes from streptomycetes. The method is accurate and reproducible.