Single nucleotide polymorphisms on the road to strain differentiation in Mycobacterium ulcerans

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3647-3652

  Käser, Michael ^a   Hauser, Julia ^a   Pluschke, Gerd ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURULI ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BURULI ULCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 70449652129     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00761-09     Document Type: Article

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