The time is now for gene-and genome-based bacterial diagnostics: "You say you want a revolution"

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1405-1406

  Ehrlich, Garth D ^a,b   Post, J Christopher ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 84882287832     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.7042     Document Type: Note

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