Identification of Clostridium species and DNA fingerprinting of Clostridium perfringens by amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4057-4065

  Keto Timonen, Riikka ^a   Heikinheimo, Annamari ^a   Eerola, Erkki ^b   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LIMOSUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM RAMOSUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LIMOSUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM RAMOSUM;

EID: 33750963307     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01275-06     Document Type: Article

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