Variable numbers of tandem repeat loci in genetically homogeneous Haemophilus influenzae strains alter during persistent colonisation of cystic fibrosis patients

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-102

  Renders, Nicole ^a,d   Licciardello, Lidia ^b   Ijsseldijk, Cathelijn ^a   Sijmons, Marly ^a   Van Alphen, Loek ^c   Verbrugh, Henri ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Medical Microbiology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonization; Cystic fibrosis; Haemophilus influenzae; Variable number of tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPUTUM;

EID: 0033000485     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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