Rapid identification of Enterococcus hirae and Enterococcus durans by PCR and detection of a homologue of the E. hirae mur-2 gene in E. durans

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1567-1570

  Arias, Cesar A ^a,c   Robredo, Beatriz ^b   Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Torres, Carmen ^b   Panesso, Diana ^c   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COPY GENE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MUR 2 GENE; MURG GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE;

EID: 33645924366     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.4.1567-1570.2006     Document Type: Article

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