Development and application of MLVA methods as a tool for inter-laboratory surveillance

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 35, 2013, Pages

  Nadon, C A ^a   Trees, E ^b   Ng, L K ^a   Moller Nielsen E ^c   Reimer, A ^a   Maxwell, N ^b   Kubota, K A ^d   Gerner Smidt, P ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NOMENCLATURE; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 84883346759     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.35.20565     Document Type: Article

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