Evaluation of a novel method based on amplification of DNA fragments surrounding rare restriction sites (ADSRRS fingerprinting) for typing strains of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-351

  Krawczyk, Beata ^a   Lewandowski, Krzysztof ^a   Bronk, Marek ^b   Samet, Alfred ^b   Myjak, Przemysław ^c   Kur, Józef ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Public Hospital No 1   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; PCR; PCR fingerprinting; PCR suppression; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG TARGETING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 0037346719     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(02)00187-2     Document Type: Article

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