Molecular epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis in sicily: Genome macrorestriction analysis and rapid PCR-ribotyping

New Microbiologica

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 319-327

  Agodi, A ^a   Sciacca, A ^a   Campanile, F ^a   Messina, C ^a   Barchitta, M ^a   Sciacca, S ^a   Stefani, S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

P. aeruginosa; PCR ribotyping; PFGE

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ALUI; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOTYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOTYPING; SICILY;

EID: 0034219239     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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