High level of sequence diversity in the 16s rRNA genes of Haemophilus influenzae isolates is useful for molecular subtyping

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3734-3742

  Sacchi, Claudio T ^a   Alber, Dietmar ^b   Dull, Peter ^c   Mothershed, Elizabeth A ^a   Whitney, Anne M ^a   Barnett, Gwen A ^a   Popovic, Tanja ^a   Mayer, Leonard W ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 23744489921     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.8.3734-3742.2005     Document Type: Article

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