Using BOX-PCR to exclude a clonal outbreak of melioidosis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Currie, Bart J ^a,b   Gal, Daniel ^b   Mayo, Mark ^b   Ward, Linda ^a,b   Godoy, Daniel ^c   Spratt, Brian G ^c   LiPuma, John J ^d  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MELIOIDOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

PRIMER DNA;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34547420196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-68     Document Type: Article

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