Efficacy of two DNA fingerprinting methods for typing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 215-223

  Quelle, L S ^a   Catalano, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034994109     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(01)00238-3     Document Type: Article

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