Epidemiological typing of Campylobacter isolates from meat processing plants by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, fatty acid profile typing, serotyping, and biotyping

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2346-2349

  Steele, M ^a   Mcnab, B ^b   Fruhner, L ^a   Degrandis, S ^a   Woodward, D ^c   Odumeru, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPOLOGY; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANADA; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SP.;

EID: 0031867260     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2346-2349.1998     Document Type: Article

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