A critical appraisal of the Phene-Plate biochemical fingerprinting system for epidemiological subtyping of Salmonella typhimurium

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 185-195

  On, Stephen L W ^a   Baggesen, Dorte L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Numerical analysis; Phenotyping; Reproducibility; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030201058     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7012(96)00910-4     Document Type: Article

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