Urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4415-4418

  Matsuda, Motoo ^a   Moore, John E ^b  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; UREASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CELL STRUCTURE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MOLLUSC; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESERVOIR; SALT TOLERANCE; SHELLFISH; SHORT SURVEY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CATS; CHILD; DOGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UREASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; MOLLUSCA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4143118902     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4415-4418.2004     Document Type: Short Survey

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