A polymorphic tandem repeat potentially useful for typing in the chromosome of Yersinia enterocolitica

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 199-204

  de Benito, Inés ^a   Cano, María Eliecer ^a   Agüero, Jesús ^a,b   García Lobo, Juan M ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 1642432875     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26642-0     Document Type: Article

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