Tracing isolates of bacterial species by multilocus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA)

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-27

  Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial epidemiology; MLVA; VNTR

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA; BIOTERRORISM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33846483622     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00173.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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