Analysis of Mycobacterium avium complex isolates from blood samples of AIDS patients by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 498-499

  Kunimoto, D Y ^a   Peppler, M S ^a   Talbot, J ^a   Phillips, P ^b   Shafran, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANADA; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC); MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 12244277012     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.1.498-499.2003     Document Type: Article

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