Evaluation of porB PCR-Amplicon Restriction Endonuclease Analysis as a Method to Determine porB Variable-Region Sequences in Nonserotypeable Meningococci

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1731-1733

  Dyet, Kristin H ^a   Simmonds, Robin S ^b   Martin, Diana R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 13844303049     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1731-1733.2004     Document Type: Article

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