The Clermont Escherichia coli phylo-typing method revisited: Improvement of specificity and detection of new phylo-groups

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-65

  Clermont, Olivier ^a   Christenson, Julia K ^b   Denamur, Erick ^a   Gordon, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLO;

EID: 84873324306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12019     Document Type: Article

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