High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 619-621

  Aires De Sousa, M ^a   Boye, K ^b   De Lencastre, H ^a   Deplano, A ^c   Enright, M C ^d   Etienne, J ^e   Friedrich, A ^f   Harmsen, D ^f   Holmes, A ^g   Huijsdens, X W ^h   Kearns, A M ^g   Mellmann, A ^f   Meugnier, H ^e   Rasheed, J K ⁱ   Spalburg, E ^h   Strommenger, B ^j   Struelens, M J ^c   Tenover, F C ⁱ   Thomas, J ^d   Vogel, U ^k   Westh, H ^b   Xu, J ^l   Witte, W ^j   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^e EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^j ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^l National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 32344441986     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.2.619-621.2006     Document Type: Article

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