Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for molecular epidemiologic and population genetic studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1927-1931

  Singh, Samir P ^a   Salamon, Hugh ^a,b   Lahti, Carol J ^c   Farid Moyer, Mehran ^a   Small, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BIO RAD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032939697     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1927-1931.1999     Document Type: Article

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