Characterisation of human outbreaks of brucellosis and sporadic cases by the use of hyper-variable octameric oligonucleotide fingerprint (HOOF) variable number tandem repeats

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 887-892

  Valdezate, S ^a   Cervera, I ^a   Hernandez, P ^b   Navarro, A ^a   Saez Nieto J A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b San Pedro de Alcantara Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brucella melitensis; Epidemiology; HOOFs; Outbreaks; Typing; Variable number tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERVARIABLE OCTAMERIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDE FINGERPRINT; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS;

EID: 34547837354     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01768.x     Document Type: Article

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