Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis indicates genotypic heterogeneity among Campylobacter upsaliensis strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-61

  Bourke, Billy ^a,b   Sherman, Philip M ^a,b   Woodward, David ^c   Lior, Hermy ^c   Chan, Voon L ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; Chromosome; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0030587534     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00290-X     Document Type: Article

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