Emergence of distinct genetic variants in the population of primary Bartonella henselae isolates

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1315-1320

  Arvand, Mardjan ^a   Schubert, Hannah ^b   Viezens, Juliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily primed PCR; Bartonella henselae; Genetic variants; Molecular typing; Multi locus sequence typing; Primary isolate; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT DISEASES; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CATS; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERIAL PASSAGE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BARTONELLA HENSELAE;

EID: 33744791448     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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