Sporadic cases of Staphylococcus aureus organisms negative for a species-specific 442-base pair chromosomal fragment [1]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3449-

  Sütterlin, Katja ^a   Englert, Ralf ^a   Schmidt Wieland, Thorsten ^a   Schmitt, Jürgen ^a   Reischl, Udo ^b   Lehn, Norbert ^b  

^a Gemeinschaftspraxis Labormedizin   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; NUCLEASE;

ACCURACY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENBANK; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037480703     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3449.2003     Document Type: Letter

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