Typing of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from dogs by use of multilocus sequence typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3466-3471

  Parsons, B N ^a   Cody, A J ^d   Porter, C J ^a   Stavisky, J H ^a   Smith, J L ^b   Williams, N J ^a   Leatherbarrow, A J H ^b,g   Hart, C A ^c   Gaskell, R M ^a   Dingle, K E ^e,f   Dawson, S ^b  

^a Small Animal Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Groups   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences Leahurst ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 70449640144     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01046-09     Document Type: Article

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