Multilocus sequence typing of Neisseria meningitidis directly from clinical samples and application of the method to the investigation of meningococcal disease case clusters

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6007-6014

  Birtles, Andrew ^a   Hardy, Katie ^a   Gray, Stephen J ^a   Handford, Suzanne ^a   Kaczmarski, Edward B ^a   Edwards Jones, Valerie ^b   Fox, Andrew J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA SEQUENCE; IRELAND; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 30744456813     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6007-6014.2005     Document Type: Article

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