Identification of new transposable genetic elements in Burkholderia pseudomallei using subtractive hybridisation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-79

  Brown, Nat F ^a   Lew, Ala E ^b   Beacham, Ifor R ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burkholderia pseudomallei; Fingerprinting; Insertion sequence; Melioidosis; Subtractive hybridisation; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033980312     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00632-1     Document Type: Article

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