A typing scheme for the honeybee pathogen Melissococcus plutonius allows detection of disease transmission events and a study of the distribution of variants

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 525-529

  Haynes, Edward ^a,b   Helgason, Thorunn ^a   Young, J Peter W ^a   Thwaites, Richard ^b   Budge, Giles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; EVALUATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENGLAND; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84880403670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12057     Document Type: Article

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