Repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR for study of Streptococcus mutans diversity and transmission in human populations

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 599-602

  Moser, S A ^a   Mitchell, S C ^b   Ruby, J D ^b   Momeni, S ^b   Osgood, R C ^b,c   Whiddon, J ^a   Childers, N K ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 75649144801     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01828-09     Document Type: Article

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