Speciating Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates from poultry and humans using six PCR-based assays

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 201-209

  Burnett, Tracey A ^a,b   Hornitzky, Michael A ^a   Kuhnert, Peter ^c   Djordjevic, Steven P ^a  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Campylobacter coli; Campylobacter jejuni; Diagnosis; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS;

EID: 0037027539     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01016-9     Document Type: Article

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