Emergence of a mutL mutation causing multilocus sequence typing- pulsed-field gel electrophoresis discrepancy among Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from a cystic fibrosis patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1777-1778

  García Castillo, María ^a   Máiz, Luis ^a   Morosini, María Isabel ^a   Rodríguez Baños, Mercedes ^a   Suarez, Lucrecia ^a   Fernández Olmos, Ana ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a   Del Campo, Rosa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CODON; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84859982559     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05478-11     Document Type: Article

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