Development of a 5′ nuclease assay to detect ciprofloxacin resistant isolates of the biowarfare agent Yersinia pestis

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-47

  Lindler, Luther E ^a   Fan, Wei ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistant; Bioterrorism; Biowarfare; Fluorogenic PCR; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE PROBE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; DNA PROBE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHARMACOGENETICS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA PROBES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; PHARMACOGENETICS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0037292070     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-8508(02)00111-1     Document Type: Article

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