Arbitrarily Primed-Polymerase Chain Reaction for Identification and Epidemiologic Subtyping of Oral Isolates of Fusobacterium nucleatum

Journal of Periodontology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1202-1208

  Avila Campos, Mario Julio ^a   Sacchi, Cláudio T ^b   Whitney, Anne M ^c   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^c   Mayer, Leonard W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusobacterium nucleatum; Periodontal diseases microbiology; Polymerase chain reaction methods

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033210343     PISSN: 00223492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1902/jop.1999.70.10.1202     Document Type: Article

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