Alignment-free design of highly discriminatory diagnostic primer sets for Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pritchard, Leighton ^a   Holden, Nicola J ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^b   Karch, Helge ^b   Toth, Ian K ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104 H4; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HARNESS;

PRIMER DNA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84859324209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034498     Document Type: Article

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