Establishment of an Arbitrary PCR for Rapid Identification of Tn917 Insertion Sites in Staphylococcus epidermidis: Characterization of Biofilm-Negative and Nonmucoid Mutants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5812-5818

  Knobloch, Johannes K M ^a   Nedelmann, Max ^a   Kiel, Kathrin ^a   Bartscht, Katrin ^a   Horstkotte, Matthias A ^a   Dobinsky, Sabine ^a   Rohde, Holger ^a   Mack, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

INSERTION SITES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0142040923     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5812-5818.2003     Document Type: Article

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