Article
DNA fingerprinting of Enterococcus faecium by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis may be a useful epidemiologic tool.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1991
Miranda A G, Singh K V, Murray B E
Abstract excerpt
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was used to compare 34 isolates of Enterococcus faecium from six different geographic locations. This procedure generated an average of 13 discernible fragment bands per isolate (range, 10 to 19 fragment bands) of 34 to 485 kb. The resulting restriction endonuclease digestion patterns were quite heterogeneous and were able to differentiate 27 of 34 isolates from each other, as...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Enterococcus faecium
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Restriction Mapping