Clonal analysis of the serogroup B meningococci causing New Zealand's epidemic

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 377-383

  Dyet, K H ^a   Martin, Diana R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

CLONE CELLS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33244471135     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004954     Document Type: Article

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