Comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and three rep-PCR methods for evaluating the genetic relatedness of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 393-398

  Lin, C W ^a   Chiou, C S ^b,c   Chang, Y C ^a   Yang, T C ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BOX PCR; Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR; Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Indexed keywords

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BOX-PCR; DISCRIMINATORY POWER; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS-PCR; GENETIC RELATEDNESS; PALINDROMIC; PCR METHOD; PCR TECHNIQUES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPETITIVE EXTRAGENIC PALINDROMIC-PCR; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROKINESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATEDNESS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 54249094657     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2008.02443.x     Document Type: Article

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