Identification of melioidosis outbreak by multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-174

  Currie, Bart J ^a,b   Haslem, Asha ^a   Pearson, Talima ^c   Hornstra, Heidie ^c   Leadem, Benjamin ^c   Mayo, Mark ^a   Gal, Daniel ^a   Ward, Linda ^a,b   Godoy, Daniel ^d   Spratt, Brian G ^d   Keim, Paul ^c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MELIOIDOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 63849262403     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.081036     Document Type: Article

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