Identification of streptococci to species level by sequencing the gene encoding the manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-47

  Poyart, Claire ^a   Quesne, Gilles ^a   Coulon, Stephane ^a   Berche, Patrick ^a   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS; CRICETUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS ACIDOMINIMUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS ALACTOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS CANIS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PORCINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STREPTOCOCCUS VESTIBULARIS;

EID: 0031974386     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.1.41-47.1998     Document Type: Article

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