Multilocus sequence typing - What is resolved?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 373-377

  Cooper, Jessica E ^a   Feil, Edward J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GEL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LABORATORY; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 3342926241     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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