Optimization of analytical parameters for inferring relationships among Escherichia coli isolates from repetitive-element PCR by maximizing correspondence with multilocus sequence typing data

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 6049-6052

  Goldberg, Tony L ^a   Gillespie, Thomas R ^a   Singer, Randall S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITOMETERS; ENZYME KINETICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES; DENSITOMETRIC PROFILES; GENETIC DISTANCES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING (MLST);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHROMOSOME; FECAL COLIFORM; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DATA BASE; DENSITOMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC DISTANCE; GOLD STANDARD; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE ELEMENT POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33748793071     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00355-06     Document Type: Article

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