Multilocus sequence typing of Cronobacter sakazakii and Cronobacter malonaticus reveals stable clonal structures with clinical significance which do not correlate with biotypes

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baldwin, Adam ^a   Loughlin, Michael ^b   Caubilla Barron, Juncal ^b   Kucerova, Eva ^b   Manning, Georgina ^b   Dowson, Christopher ^a   Forsythe, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; FAR EAST; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70449567518     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-223     Document Type: Article

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