Evaluation of ribotyping as a tool for molecular typing of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains of worldwide origin

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6155-6160

  Voskressenskaya, Ekaterina ^a,b   Leclercq, Alexandre ^a   Tseneva, Galina ^b   Carniel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b ST PETERSBURG PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MICE; RABBITS; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; WORLD HEALTH; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 30744467976     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6155-6160.2005     Document Type: Article

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