Necessity of quality-controlled 16S rRNA gene sequence databases: Identifying nontuberculous Mycobacterium species

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 3637-3648

  Turenne, C Y ^a   Tschetter, L ^a   Wolfe, J ^a   Kabani, A ^a  

^a Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DATA BASE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERNET; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INTERNET; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034798093     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.10.3638-3648.2001     Document Type: Article

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