Defining the unknown: Molecular methods for finding new microbes

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 331-334

  Wagar, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MICROORGANISM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRULENCE;

ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SARCOMA, KAPOSI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0030000794     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2825(1996)10:6<331::AID-JCLA4>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Review

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