Epidemiological and phylogenetic analysis of Spanish human Brucella melitensis strains by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat typing, hypervariable octameric oligonucleotide fingerprinting, and rpoB typing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2734-2740

  Valdezate, Sylvia ^a   Navarro, Ana ^a   Villalón, Pilar ^a   Carrasco, Gema ^a   Saéz Nieto, Juan A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HYPERVARIABLE OCTAMERIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDE FINGERPRINTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPAIN;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS;

EID: 77955460849     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00533-10     Document Type: Article

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