Bacterial strain typing

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-650

  MacCannell, Duncan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial typing techniques; DNA sequence analysis; Genomics; Molecular epidemiology; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPERSED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CULTURE INDEPENDENT DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EMM TYPING; EPIDEMIC; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REVIEW; RIBOTYPING; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPA TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BACTERIAL GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84881492950     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2013.03.005     Document Type: Review

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