DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in Moraxella catarrhalis isolated from different geographical areas

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-422

  Martinez, G ^a   Ahmed, K ^a   Zheng, C H ^a   Watanabe, K ^a   Oishi, K ^a   Nagatake, T ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM; TECHNIQUE; THAILAND; UGANDA;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 0032782169     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899002381     Document Type: Article

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