Molecular subtyping of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 408-414

  Pillay, Allan ^a   Liu, Hsi ^b   Chen, Cheng Y ^b   Holloway, Brian ^b   Willem Sturm, A ^a   Steiner, Bret ^b   Morse, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0031686847     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199809000-00004     Document Type: Article

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