Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus thuringiensis Isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1068-1080

  Hill, Karen K ^a   Ticknor, Lawrence O ^a   Okinaka, Richard T ^a   Asay, Michelle ^a   Blair, Heather ^a   Bliss, Katherine A ^a   Laker, Mariam ^a   Pardington, Paige E ^a   Richardson, Amber P ^a   Tonks, Melinda ^a   Beecher, Douglas J ^b   Kemp, John D ^c   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^d   Wong, Amy C Lee ^e   Keim, Paul ^f   Jackson, Paul J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; INSECTICIDES; SOILS;

GENOMIC CONTENT; POLYMORPHISM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIARRHEA; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEROTYPE; SOIL; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2342474457     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.1068-1080.2004     Document Type: Article

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