Single-step polymerase chain reaction for combined gene detection and epidemiological typing in three bacterial models

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-316

  Saulnier, Patrick ^a   Chachaty, Elisabeth ^a   Hilali, Farida ^a   Andremont, Antoine ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Clostridim difficile; Escherichia coli; Gene detection; Molecular typing; Polymerase chain reaction; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOASSAY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYTOTOXINS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030987743     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00143-2     Document Type: Article

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