Typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from patients with cystic fibrosis: Phenotyping versus genotyping

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 261-265

  Renders, Nicole ^a   van Belkum, Alex ^a   Barth, Alfonso ^b   Goessens, Wil ^a   Mouton, Johan ^a   Verbrugh, Henri ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AP PCR; P. aeruginosa, pyocin; PFGE; Serotyping

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0000239289     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1996.tb00572.x     Document Type: Article

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