Rapid multi-locus sequence typing using microfluidic biochips

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Read, Timothy D ^a,b   Turingan, Rosemary S ^c   Cook, Christopher ^a   Giese, Heidi ^c   Thomann, Ulrich Hans ^c   Hogan, Catherine C ^c   Tan, Eugene ^c   Selden, Richard F ^c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Network Biosystems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHIP; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC LOCI; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956282648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010595     Document Type: Article

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