Assays for the rapid and specific identification of North American Yersinia pestis and the common laboratory strain CO92

BioTechniques

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-207

  Vogler, Amy J ^a   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^a   Lee, Judy ^a   Auerbach, Raymond K ^a   Allender, Christopher J ^a   Stanley, Miles ^a   Kubota, Kristy ^b   Andersen, Gary L ^c   Radnedge, Lyndsay ^d   Worsham, Patricia L ^e   Keim, Paul ^a   Wagner, David M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 40949138262     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112815     Document Type: Article

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