Optimisation of AP-PCR fingerprinting discriminatory power for clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-57

  Da̧browski, Waldemar ^a   Czekaj O Ko Odziej, Urszula ^a   Mȩdrala, Dagmara ^a   Giedrys Kalemba, Stefania ^b  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction; Optimisation; Orthogonal array; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC PARAMETERS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0037458143     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01183-7     Document Type: Article

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