Detection of vancomycin resistant genes vanA and vanB by Cycling Probe Technology

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-231

  Modrusan, Z ^a,b   Marlowe, C ^a   Wheeler, D ^a   Pirseyedi, M ^a   Bryan, R N ^a  

^a ID Biomedical Corporation   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chimeric DNA RNA DNA probe; Cycling probe technology (CPT); VanA and vanB genes; Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE); VRE detection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBONUCLEASE H; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHIMERA; DIFFUSION; DNA PROBE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE;

EID: 0033153461     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1999.0242     Document Type: Article

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