Article
Comparative study of five different DNA fingerprint techniques for molecular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 1995
Hermans P W, Sluijter M, Hoogenboezem T, Heersma H, van Belkum A, de Groot R
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to identify the strengths and weaknesses of five DNA fingerprint methods for epidemiological typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. We investigated the usefulness of (i) ribotyping, (ii) BOX fingerprinting with the BOX repetitive sequence of S. pneumoniae as a DNA probe, (iii) PCR fingerprinting with a primer homologous to the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence, (iv)...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Sequence
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA Primers
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Genotype