Amplification of a 500-base-pair fragment from cultured isolates of Mycobacterium bovis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2330-2332

  Rodríguez, Juan Germán ^a   Fissanoti, Juan Carlos ^c   Del Portillo, Patricia ^a   Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin ^b   Romano, María Isabel ^c   Cataldi, Angel ^c  

^a Genomics and Evolution of Communities of Environmental Microorganisms   (Colombia)

^b Hospital San Juan de Dios   (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0345085532     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.7.2330-2332.1999     Document Type: Article

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