A standardized protocol for the rapid preparation of bacterial DNA for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 275-279

  Chang, Nicholas ^a   Chui, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXTRACTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031898525     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00007-8     Document Type: Article

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