Serotype IX, a proposed new Streptococcus agalactiae serotype

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2929-2936

  Slotved, Hans Christian ^a   Kong, Fanrong ^b   Lambertsen, Lotte ^a   Sauer, Susanne ^a   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BAC GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BCA GENE; CROSS REACTION; GENE CLUSTER; IMMUNODIFFUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 34548680932     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00117-07     Document Type: Article

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