Application of Campylobacter molecular classification and typing techniques in veterinary medicine: Old-established methods and new perspectives

Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 120, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 267-278

  Laturnus, Claudia ^a   Wieler, Lothar H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Campylobacter spp.; Genotypical classification; Genotypical typing; Molecular epidemiology; Monitoring; Multiple locus analysis; Single locus analysis; Surveillance; Whole genome analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER;

EID: 34447539954     PISSN: 00059366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2376/0005-9366-120-267     Document Type: Review

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