Polymerase chain reaction typing of nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 149-151

  Loeffelholz, Mike J ^a   Thompson, Curt J ^a   Gaunt, Dennis D ^a   Koontz, Frank P ^b   Gilchrist, Mary J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030295160     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(96)00214-3     Document Type: Article

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