Use of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Flagellin Gene Typing in Identifying Clonal Groups of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in Farm and Clinical Environments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1429-1436

  Fitzgerald, Collette ^a,b   Stanley, Karen ^a,c   Andrew, Sarah ^a,d   Jones, Keith ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD DISEASE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FLAGELLIN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POULTRY DISEASES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TURKEYS;

EID: 0035318657     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1429-1436.2001     Document Type: Article

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