Evaluation of AFLP, a high-resolution DNA fingerprinting method, as a tool for molecular subtyping of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 803-806

  Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Wada, Akihito ^a   Weller, Jeniffer ^b   Flood, Susan J A ^b   Schreiber, Edgar ^b   Tucker, Bill ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; DNA subtyping; EHEC O157:H7; PFGE

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032796144     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb02473.x     Document Type: Article

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