The need to differentiate Campylobacter fetus subspecies isolated from humans

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-342

  Kalka Moll, Wiltrud M ^a   Van Bergen, M A P ^a   Plum, G ^a   Kronke M ^a   Wagenaar, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; CEFOPERAZONE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUBSPECIES; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 15944416183     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01071.x     Document Type: Letter

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