Necessity of molecular techniques to distinguish between Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated from patients with meningococcal disease and from their healthy contacts

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2465-2470

  Vogel, Ulrich ^a   Morelli, Giovanna ^b   Zurth, Kerstin ^b   Claus, Heike ^a   Kriener, Eugen ^c   Achtman, Mark ^b   Frosch, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c Gesundheitsamt im Landratsamts W   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0031851907     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2465-2470.1998     Document Type: Article

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