The role of molecular biology and nucleic acid technology in the study of human infection and epidemiology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1098-1105

  Zaidi, Najam ^a,c,e   Konstantinou, Konstantinos ^b,e   Zervos, Marcus ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Research Institute   (United States)

^c Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^d Section of Microbiology   (United States)

^e WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 0041834448     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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