Variable nucleotide tandem-repeat analysis revealing a unique group of Leptospira interrogans serovar Pomona isolates associated with California sea lions

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1202-1205

  Zuerner, Richard L ^a   Alt, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR POMONA; SUIDAE; ZALOPHUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR POMONA; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEA LIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE;

EID: 65249085547     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01639-08     Document Type: Article

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