Molecular characterization of Coxiella burnetii isolates by infrequent restriction site-PCR and MLVA typing

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Arricau Bouvery, Nathalie ^a   Hauck, Yolande ^b   Bejaoui, Awatef ^a   Frangoulidis, Dimitrios ^c   Bodier, Christelle C ^a   Souriau, Armel ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^c   Neubauer, Heinrich ^c   Rodolakis, Annie ^a   Vergnaud, Gilles ^b,d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CENTRE D ETUDES DU BOUCHET   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION SITE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

COXIELLA BURNETII; IXODIDA;

EID: 33745833651     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-38     Document Type: Article

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