Lack of continuity between Cronobacter biotypes and species as determined using multilocus sequence typing

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 137-139

  Joseph, Susan ^a   Hariri, Sumyya ^a   Forsythe, Stephen J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotyping; Cronobacter; Multilcous sequence typing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CRONOBACTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CRONOBACTER; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876954961     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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