Comparative evaluation of an automated ribotyping instrument versus pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological investigation of clinical isolates of bacteria

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-268

  Hollis, R J ^a   Bruce, J L ^b   Fritschel, S J ^b   Pfaller, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Qualicon   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAFNIA ALVEI; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COST SAVINGS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

EID: 0032798906     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00033-4     Document Type: Article

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