Identification of Nucleotide Sequences for the Specific and Rapid Detection of Yersinia pestis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3759-3762

  Radnedge, Lyndsay ^a   Gamez Chin, Silvia ^a   Mccready, Paula M ^a   Worsham, Patricia L ^b   Andersen, Gary L ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U States Army Med Res Inst ID   (United States)

^c Biology and Biotechnology Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0035433193     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3759-3762.2001     Document Type: Article

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