Assigning Escherichia coli strains to phylogenetic groups: Multi-locus sequence typing versus the PCR triplex method

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2484-2496

  Gordon, David M ^a   Clermont, Olivier ^b   Tolley, Heather ^a   Denamur, Erick ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLO;

EID: 51649120558     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01669.x     Document Type: Article

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