Typing of clostridium perfringens strains by use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) system in comparison with zymotyping

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Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 245-250

  Leflon Guibout, Véronique ^a   Pons, Jean Louis ^b   Heym, Beate ^a   Nicolas Chanoine, Marie Hélène ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Discriminatory index; Epidemiology; RAPD typing; Zymotyping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031208896     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anae.1997.0094     Document Type: Article

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