Genetic relatedness among environmental, clinical, and diseased-eel Vibrio vulnificus isolates from different geographic regions by ribotyping and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3403-3410

  Arias, Covadonga R ^a   Pujalte, María Jesús ^a   Garay, Esperanza ^a   Aznar, Rosa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RIBOTYPING; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANGUILLIFORMES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0031659169     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3403-3410.1998     Document Type: Article

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