Efficient discrimination within a Corynebacterium diphtheriae epidemic clonal group by a novel macroarray-based method

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1662-1668

  Mokrousov, Igor ^a   Narvskaya, Olga ^a   Limeschenko, Elena ^a   Vyazovaya, Anna ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; FRANCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOTYPING; RUSSIA;

EID: 16844378680     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.4.1662-1668.2005     Document Type: Article

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