Improved identification of epidemiologically related strains of Salmonella enterica by use of a fusion algorithm based on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4072-4082

  Broschat, S L ^a   Call, D R ^a   Davis, M A ^a   Meng, D ^a   Lockwood, S ^a   Ahmed, R ^b   Besser, T E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Public Health Agency of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 78049521342     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00659-10     Document Type: Article

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