Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis genotyping of human Brucella isolates from Turkey

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3276-3283

  Kiliç, Selçuk ^a   Ivanov, Ivan N ^b   Durmaz, Riza ^a,c   Bayraktar, Mehmet Refik ^d   Ayaşlioǧlu, Ergin ^e   Uyanik, M Hamidullah ^f   Alişkan, Hikmet ^g   Yaşar, Ekrem ^h   Bayramoǧlu, Gülçin ⁱ   Arslantürk, Ahmet ^a,j   Vergnaud, Gilles ^k,l   Kantardjiev, Todor V ^b  

^a Department of Communicable Diseases Research   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^c INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h Children's Hospital   (Turkey)

ⁱ KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j State Hospital   (Turkey)

^k UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^l DGA/MRIS   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SCHOOL CHILD; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS;

EID: 80052244705     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02538-10     Document Type: Article

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