High-resolution melting system to perform multilocus sequence typing of Campylobacter jejuni

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lévesque, Simon ^a   Michaud, Sophie ^a   Arbeit, Robert D ^b   Frost, Eric H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME; ANIMAL; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GALLUS GALLUS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHICKENS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79551550743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016167     Document Type: Article

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