Identification of clinically important species of Enterococcus within 1 day with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)

Current Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 332-336

  Quednau, Mikael ^a   Ahrné, Siv ^a   Petersson, Ann Catherine ^b   Molin, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ENTEROCOCCUS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FLAVESCENS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031966659     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900318     Document Type: Article

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