Comparison of PCR binary typing (P-BIT), a new approach to epidemiological subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni, with serotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and multilocus sequence typing methods

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1533-1544

  Cornelius, Angela J ^a   Gilpin, Brent ^a   Carter, Philip ^b   Nicol, Carolyn ^c   On, Stephen L W ^a  

^a ESR Christchurch Science Centre   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c National Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity and Biosecurity   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPECIES; CAMPYLOBACTER SPP; CLONAL COMPLEX; DIVERSITY INDEX; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW APPROACHES; PENNER SEROTYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK RANKING; SEROTYPING; SUBTYPINGS;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TARGETS;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DIVERSITY INDEX; ELECTROKINESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI;

EID: 77649205330     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02215-09     Document Type: Article

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