High-resolution melting genotyping of enterococcus faecium based on multilocus sequence typing derived single nucleotide polymorphisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Tong, Steven Y C ^a   Xie, Shirley ^b   Richardson, Leisha J ^a   Ballard, Susan A ^b   Dakh, Farshid ^a   Grabsch, Elizabeth A ^b   Grayson, M Lindsay ^b   Howden, Benjamin P ^b   Johnson, Paul D R ^b   Giffard, Philip M ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA DENATURATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 83455182089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029189     Document Type: Article

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