Development of a new PCR-ribotyping method for Clostridium difficile based on ribosomal RNA gene sequencing

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 261-266

  Bidet, Philippe ^a,b   Barbut, Frédéric ^a   Lalande, Valérie ^a   Burghoffer, Béatrice ^a   Petit, Jean Claude ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Polymerase chain reaction ribotyping; Ribosomal RNA; Typing method

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032815109     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00204-9     Document Type: Article

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