Development of Multiplex PCR Assays for the Identification of the 33 Serotypes of Streptococcus suis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Zhijie ^a,b   Zheng, Han ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^c   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^d   Ji, Shaobo ^a   Liu, Haican ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b HUAIHUA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; WZY GENE;

EID: 84881261810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072070     Document Type: Article

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