Genotyping of Bacteroides fragilis isolates from stool specimens by arbitrarily-primed-PCR

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 225-229

  Sarma, Praveena N ^a   Tang, Yajarayma J ^a   Prindiville, Thomas P ^a   Osborne, Paul D ^a   Jang, Spencer ^a   Silva Jr, Joseph ^a   Cohen, Stuart H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; FRAGILYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034253887     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00150-4     Document Type: Article

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