Amplified fragment length polymorphism of Streptococcus suis strains correlates with their profile of virulence-associated genes and clinical background

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-109

  Rehm, Thomas ^a   Baums, Christoph G ^a   Strommenger, Birgit ^b   Beyerbach, Martin ^a   Valentin Weigand, Peter ^a   Goethe, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CPS1 GENE; CPS2 GENE; CPS7 GENE; CPS9 GENE; EPF GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MRP GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TYPE COMPLEX 1 GENE; SLY GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33845961320     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46616-0     Document Type: Article

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