Comparative study of five different techniques for epidemiological typing of Escherichia coli O157

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 165-176

  Grif, Katharina ^a   Karch, Helge ^b   Schneider, Christian ^c   Daschner, Franz D ^c   Beutin, Lothar ^d   Cheasty, Thomas ^e   Smith, Henry ^e   Rowe, Bernard ^e   Dierich, Manfred P ^a   Allerberger, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAFNIA ALVEI; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RIBOTYPING; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CATTLE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032440733     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00103-5     Document Type: Article

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