Evaluation of a PCR melting profile technique for bacterial strain differentiation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2327-2332

  Krawczyk, Beata ^a   Samet, Alfred ^b   Leibner, Justyna ^a   Śledzińska, Anna ^b   Kur, Józef ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION MELTING PROFILE TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33746211227     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00052-06     Document Type: Article

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