Microchip capillary electrophoresis of multi-locus VNTR analysis for genotyping of bacillus anthracis and yersinia pestis in microbial forensic cases

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 830, Issue , 2012, Pages 381-390

  Ciammaruconi, Andrea ^a  

^a Army Medical Research Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Bacterial genotyping; Lab on a chip; Microfluidic electrophoresis; VNTR; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; LAB ON A CHIP; METHODOLOGY; MICROCHIP ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, MICROCHIP; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84855890763     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-461-2_26     Document Type: Article

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