Detection and characterization of broad-host-range plasmids in environmental bacteria by PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2621-2628

  Gotz A ^a   Pukall, R ^a   Smit, E ^b   Tietze, E ^c   Prager, R ^c   Tschape H ^c   Van Elsas, J D ^b   Smalla, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030014510     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2621-2628.1996     Document Type: Article

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