Streptococcus agalactiae pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns cross capsular types

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1420-1425

  Pillai, P ^a   Srinivasan, U ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Borchardt, S M ^b   Debusscher, J ^a   Marrs, C F ^a   Foxman, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Fargo VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Group B Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349231269     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809002167     Document Type: Article

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