Patent ID: 7271781

Claim:
A method for species-specific identification of a Mycobacterium , comprising: hybridizing a Mycobacterium -genus selective primer or a Mycobacterium specific primer to a sample; amplifying Mycobacterium -specific nucleic acids from the sample utilizing the Mycobacterium -genus selective primer or the Mycobacterium -specific primer to produce amplified Mycobacterium -specific nucleic acids; hybridizing the amplified Mycobacterium -specific nucleic acids to a solid phase nucleic acid array comprising a plurality of Mycobacterium species-specific probe oligonucleotides chemically linked to a polymeric solid support surface in a predetermined pattern, wherein at least one of the Mycobacterium species-specific probe oligonucleotides attached to the solid support surface has a sequence as consisting of SEQ ID NO: 14; detecting a hybridization pattern of the amplified Mycobacterium -specific nucleic acid to the Mycobacterium species-specific probe oligonucleotides chemically linked to a solid support surface in a predetermined pattern; and identifying the species of Mycobacterium in the sample based on the hybridization pattern.