Fine-Structure Molecular Typing of Irish Helicobacter pylori Isolates and Their Genetic Relatedness to Strains from Four Different Continents

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5755-5759

  Carroll, Ian M ^a   Ahmed, Niyaz ^c   Beesley, Sarah M ^a   Khan, Aleem A ^d   Ghousunnissa, Sheikh ^c   Moráin, Colm A O ^b   Smyth, Cyril J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c Ctr DNA Fingerprinting Diagnostics   (India)

^d DECCAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IRELAND; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INDIA; IRELAND; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0346848919     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5755-5759.2003     Document Type: Article

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