Comparative and Library Epidemiological Typing Systems: Outbreak Investigations Versus Surveillance Systems

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 565-569

  Struelens, Marc J ^a   De Gheldre, Yves ^a   Deplano, Ariane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0032130471     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141781     Document Type: Article

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