Use of a Microchip to Detect Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Bacillus anthracis

Detection of Highly Dangerous Pathogens: Microarray Methods for BSL 3 and BSL 4 Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 147-152

  Perreten, Vincent ^a   Frey, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacillus anthracis; Conjugal transfer of resistance genes; Microchip

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890998506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527626687.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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