PCR for detection and identification of Abiotrophia spp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2844-2846

  Roggenkamp, Andreas ^a   Leitritz, Lorenz ^a   Baus, Kerstin ^a   Falsen, Enevold ^b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCACEAE;

ABIOTROPHIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCACEAE;

EID: 0031709796     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.10.2844-2846.1998     Document Type: Article

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