Use of PCR analyses to define the distribution of Ralstonia species recovered from patients with cystic fibrosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3463-3466

  Coenye, Tom ^a   Spilker, Theodore ^b   Reik, Rebecca ^b   Vandamme, Peter ^a   LiPuma, John J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA BASILENSIS; RALSTONIA MANNITOLILYTICA; RALSTONIA METALLIDURANS; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; RALSTONIA RESPIRACULI;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RALSTONIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA MANNITOLILYTICA; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; WAUTERSIA BASILENSIS; WAUTERSIA METALLIDURANS; WAUTERSIA RESPIRACULI;

EID: 22144474067     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.7.3463-3466.2005     Document Type: Article

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