A clone of Leptospira interrogans sensu stricto is the major cause of leptospirosis in the archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-185

  Roy, S ^a   Biswas, D ^a   Vijayachari, P ^a   Sugunan, A P ^a   Sehgal, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily primed PCR; Characterization; Clone; Epidemiology; Identification; Isolate; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

CLONING; RECOVERY;

ARBITRARILY PRIMED PCR; CHARACTERIZATION; CLONE; COMPARISON OF SEQUENCES; IDENTIFICATION; ISOLATE; PATHOGENICS; REFERENCE STRAINS; SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCING;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CLONE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INDIA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SENSU STRICTO; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS;

EID: 22644447285     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2005.01740.x     Document Type: Article

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