Use of the MicroSeq 500 16S rRNA gene-based sequencing for identification of bacterial isolates that commercial automated systems failed to identify correctly

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 615-619

  Fontana, Carla ^a,b   Favaro, Marco ^a   Pelliccioni, Marco ^b   Pistoia, Enrico Salvatore ^a   Favalli, Cartesio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHOENIX; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 13844297447     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.615-619.2005     Document Type: Article

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