Genotypic characteristics of Haemophilus influenzae isolates from pediatric pneumonia patients in Chengdu city, Sichuan, China

Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 494-497

  Tian, Guozhong ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Li, Machao ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^b   Zheng, Yuhong ^a   Li, Xiaojing ^b   Huang, Cheng ^b   Li, Xuechun ^b   Xie, Yongqiong ^b   Xu, Li ^a   Ren, Hongyu ^a   Shao, Zhujun ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b Chengdu Children's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Biotyping; Haemophilus influenzae; Multilocus sequence typing; Serotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 70350158059     PISSN: 12258873     EISSN: 12258873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-009-0002-4     Document Type: Article

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