Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR is a useful tool for typing Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium abscessus isolates

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-118

  Sampaio, Jorge Luiz Mello ^a,b   Viana Niero, Cristina ^a   de Freitas, Denise ^a   Höfling Lima, Ana Luisa ^a   Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fleury   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ERIC; Molecular typing; Mycobacterium abscessus; Mycobacterium chelonae; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33747094499     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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