Rapid discrimination of Mycobacterium avium strains from AIDS patients by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1585-1588

  Matsiota Bernard, P ^a   Waser, S ^a   Tassios, P T ^b   Kyriakopoulos, A ^b   Legakis, N J ^b  

^a RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

EID: 0031001770     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.6.1585-1588.1997     Document Type: Article

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