The detection of insertion sequences within the human pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei which have been identified previously in Burkholderia cepacia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-74

  Mack, Kerri ^a   Titball, Richard W ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia; Burkholderia pseudomallei; Detection; Insertion sequence; Strain variation

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032080737     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00104-9     Document Type: Article

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