SpeI restriction enzyme displays greater discriminatory power than XbaI enzyme does in a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis study on 146 clinical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 228-233

  Chua, Kek Heng ^a   See, Kah Heng ^a   Thong, Kwai Lin ^b   Puthucheary, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE SPEI; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE XBAI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79958047264     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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