Isolation and characterization of a DNA probe for Staphylococcus aureus subspecies aureus biovar

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Fontana, Carla ^a   Favaro, Marco ^a   Frezza, Domenico ^a   Favalli, Cartesio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hybridization probe; Molecular cloning; Sequence; Staphylococcus spp.

Indexed keywords

POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032994245     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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