Comparative performance of enterobacterial repetitive intragenic consensus-polymerase chain reaction and lipopolysaccharide electrophoresis for the identification of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lotus) strains

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-168

  Santamaria M ^a   Agius, F ^b   Monza, J ^b   Gutierrez Navarro A M ^a   Corzo, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Bradyrhizobium (Lotus); Lipopolysaccharide; PCR fingerprint; Strain identification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PURIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032965774     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00101-9     Document Type: Article

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