The secret life of the multilocus sequence type

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-135

  Turner, Katherine M E ^a   Feil, Edward J ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MLST; Recombination; Virulent clones

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLONE; CLONOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33846033611     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2006.11.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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