Distinguishing highly-related outbreak-associated Clostridium botulinum type A(B) strains

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Raphael, Brian H ^a   Shirey, Timothy B ^a   Lúquez, Carolina ^a   Maslanka, Susan E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Botulism; Comparative genomic analysis; Multi loci variable number of tandem repeat analysis; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BOTULISM; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE A; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE B; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES;

BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE A; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE B; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904272939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-192     Document Type: Article

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