Application of molecular genetic methods in diagnostics and epidemiology of food-borne bacterial pathogens

APMIS

Volumn 112, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 908-929

  Lukinmaa, Susanna ^a   Nakari, Ulla Maija ^a   Eklund, Marjut ^a   Siitonen, Anja ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Epidemiology; Food borne bacterial pathogens; Molecular genetic methods; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; DATA BASE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FINLAND; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; YERSINIA;

EID: 12744255424     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2004.apm11211-1213.x     Document Type: Review

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