Genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus using multilocus sequence typing

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hoffmaster, Alex R ^a   Novak, Ryan T ^a   Marston, Chung K ^a   Gee, Jay E ^a   Helsel, Leta ^a   Pruckler, James M ^a   Wilkins, Patricia P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; SEPTICEMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 56549099233     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-191     Document Type: Article

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