High resolution DNA fingerprinting of acinetobacter outbreak strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 191-194

  Janssen, Paul ^a   Dijkshoorn, Lenie ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; AFLP(TM); Epidemiological typing; Genomic fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030245594     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00264-9     Document Type: Article

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