Streptococcus suis outbreak investigation using multiple-locus variable tandem repeat number analysis

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 380-388

  Li, Wei ^a   Ye, Changyun ^a   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Zheng, Han ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Xu, Yanmei ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^b   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multilocus sequence typing; Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis; Outbreak; Streptococcus suis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CANADA; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 77954523008     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2010.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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