Usefulness of a combination of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and enrichment culture in laboratory investigation of a foodborne outbreak due to Clostridium perfringens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 471-475

  Nakamura, Hiromi ^a   Ogasawara, Jun ^a   Monma, Chie ^b   Hase, Atsushi ^a   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^b   Kai, Akemi ^b   Haruki, Kosuke ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshikazu ^c  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HEAT TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0242285515     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(03)00150-0     Document Type: Article

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