Novel IS711 chromosomal location useful for identification of marine mammal Brucella genotype ST27, which is associated with zoonotic infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3954-3959

  Cloeckaert, Axel ^a   Bernardet, Nelly ^a   Koylass, Mark S ^b   Whatmore, Adrian M ^b   Zygmunt, Michel S ^a  

^a UR1282   (France)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA CETI; BRUCELLA PINNIPEDIALIS; GENE LOCATION; GENOTYPE; IS711 GENE; MARINE MAMMAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PERU; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

BRUCELLA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80355141543     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05238-11     Document Type: Article

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