Clonal similarity of salivary and nasopharyngeal Fusobacterium nucleatum in infants with acute otitis media experience

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-165

  Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn ^a,b   Holbrook, W Peter ^b   Könönen, Eija ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INOCULATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SALIVA; SAMPLING; STEREOTYPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMANS; INFANT; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA;

EID: 1242284311     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05441-0     Document Type: Article

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