Molecular typing of Japanese Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates from clinical specimens by multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis and PFGE

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Kawamori, Fumihiko ^a,b   Hiroi, Midori ^a,b   Harada, Tetsuya ^a   Ohata, Katsuhiko ^a   Sugiyama, Kanji ^a   Masuda, Takashi ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERFORMANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 38349026263     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47213-0     Document Type: Article

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