Molecular strain typing using repetitive sequence-based PCR

Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 444-471

  Frye, Stacie R ^a   Healy, Mimi ^a  

^a Bacterial Barcodes Inc   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-32892-0_26     Document Type: Chapter

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