Discriminatory power and application of ribotyping of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3 in an epidemiological study

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 220-226

  Mendoza, M C ^a   Alzugaray, R ^a   Landeras, E ^a   Gonzalez Hevia M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio de Salud Pública   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MEAT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPAIN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIARRHEA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPAIN; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029976198     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01591358     Document Type: Article

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