Detection of sequence variation in PCR-amplified fragments of omp2 gene from three species of the family Chlamydiaceae using agarose gel electrophoresis containing bisbenzimide-PEG

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-218

  Demkin, Vladimir V ^a   Edelstein, Mikhail V ^b   Zimin, Andrey L ^a   Edelstein, Inna A ^b   Suvorov, Maxim M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bisbenzimide PEG electrophoresis; Chlamydiaceae; Genetic differentiation; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BISBENZIMIDE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI;

EID: 0034653290     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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