International nomenclature for Corynebacterium diphtheriae ribotypes

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 162-166

  Grimont, Patrick A D ^a   Grimont, Francine ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b   De Zoysa, Aruni ^b   Mazurova, Izabella ^c   Ruckly, Corinne ^a   Lejay Collin, Monique ^a   Martin Delautre, Sylvie ^a   Regnault, Béatrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Lab Epidemiologic Survlnc D   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Nomenclature; Ribotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; RIBOTYPING; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE;

EID: 1842523128     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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