CRISPRs: Molecular Signatures Used for Pathogen Subtyping

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 430-439

  Shariat, Nikki ^a   Dudley, Edward G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEMS; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SIGNATURES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIGNATURE FUNCTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; SALMONELLA;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; TUBERCULOSIS;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGENICITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHORT SURVEY;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84892453591     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02790-13     Document Type: Short Survey

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