Strategies for the Identification and Tracking of Cronobacter Species: An Opportunistic Pathogen of Concern to Neonatal Health

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yan, Qiongqiong ^a   Fanning, Séamus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cronobacter species; DNA microarray; high throughput whole transcriptome sequencing; molecular identification; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963589288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2015.00038     Document Type: Review

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