Vibrio cholerae strain typing and phylogeny study based on simple sequence repeats

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 736-746

  Danin Poleg, Yael ^a   Cohen, Lyora A ^a   Gancz, Hanan ^a,d   Broza, Yoav Y ^a   Goldshmidt, Hanoh ^a   Malul, Elinor ^a   Valinsky, Lea ^b   Lerner, Larisa ^b   Broza, Meir ^c   Kashi, Yechezkel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLELE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE NON-O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33947245586     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01895-06     Document Type: Article

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