Application of variable-number tandem-repeat typing to discriminate ralstonia solanacearum strains associated with english watercourses and disease outbreaks

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6016-6022

  Parkinson, Neil ^a   Bryant, Ruth ^b   Bew, Janice ^a   Conyers, Christine ^a   Stones, Robert ^a   Alcock, Michael ^a   Elphinstone, John ^a  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIGH RESOLUTION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RIVER THAMES; RIVER WATER; SOURCE TRACING; TANDEM REPEATS; UNITED KINGDOM;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; RIVERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CLONE; CROP PLANT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PHYLOGENETICS; RIVER WATER;

ENGLAND; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLANT DISEASE; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLANT DISEASES; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RIVERS;

EID: 84884193212     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01219-13     Document Type: Article

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