Comparison of the DiversiLab™ system, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Multi-Locus Sequence Typing for the characterization of epidemic reference MRSA strains

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 130-133

  te Witt, René ^a   Kanhai, Vikash ^b   van Leeuwen, Willem B ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DiversiLab; Genotyping; MLST; MRSA; PFGE

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENE LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REFERENCE DATABASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EUROPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 62349125564     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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