Strain variation in Mediterranean and Red Sea Mycobacterium marinum isolates

New Microbiologica

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-356

  Sechi, L A ^a   Colorni, A ^b   Dupre I ^a   Molicotti, P ^a   Fadda, G ^c   Zanetti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Molecular characterization; Mycobacterium marinum; PCR fingerprinting; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65, MYCOBACTERIUM; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 65, MYCOBACTERIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FISH DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PERCIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PERCIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036652007     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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