Use of amplified-fragment length polymorphism to study the ecology of Campylobacter jejuni in environmental water and to predict multilocus sequence typing clonal complexes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2470-2473

  Lévesque, Simon ^a   St Pierre, Karen ^a   Frost, Eric ^a   Arbeit, Robert D ^b   Michaud, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEASON;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUEBEC; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 84861148351     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06527-11     Document Type: Note

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