Rapid determination of vapA/vapB genotype in Rhodococcus equi using a differential polymerase chain reaction method

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 317-326

  Oldfield, Christopher ^a   Bonella, Hal ^a   Renwick, Lynne ^a   Dodson, Hilary I ^b   Alderson, Grace ^b   Goodfellow, Michael ^c  

^a Molecular Biology Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Isogenes; Pathogenecity; PCR; Rhodococcus equi; vapA; vapB

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GENE PRODUCT; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN VAPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; MARTES PENNANTI; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 1842789664     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ANTO.0000020383.66622.4d     Document Type: Article

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