Using the tannase gene to rapidly and simply identify Staphylococcus lugdunensis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-123

  Noguchi, Norihisa ^a   Goto, Keiko ^a   Ro, Tokihiro ^a   Narui, Koji ^a   Ko, Mari ^b   Nasu, Yutaka ^b   Utsumi, Kenta ^b   Takazawa, Kenji ^b   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^b   Sasatsu, Masanori ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial identification; PCR; Staphylococcus lugdunensis; tanA; tannase

Indexed keywords

TANNASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 71049163841     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.03.028     Document Type: Article

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