AFLP(TM) typing of Staphylococcus epidermidis in multiple sequential blood cultures

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 221-228

  Sloos, J H ^a   Janssen, P ^b   Van Boven, C P A ^a   Dijkshoorn, L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood culture, Coagulase negative staphylococci, Strain identification, Epidemiology; Staphylococcus epidermidis, AFLP(TM)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032015908     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(98)80082-X     Document Type: Article

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