Study of the influence of plasmids on the arbitrary primer polymerase chain reaction fingerprint of Escherichia coli strains.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb06660.x

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Study of the influence of plasmids on the arbitrary primer polymerase chain reaction fingerprint of Escherichia coli strains.

FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Jan 1994

Elaichouni A, van Emmelo J, Claeys G, Verschraegen G, Verhelst R, Vaneechoutte M

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To study the effect of plasmids on the arbitrary primer-polymerase chain reaction fingerprint of bacterial strains, the Escherichia coli strains DH5, Top10, and W3110 were transformed with plasmids of different sizes: respectively, pUC19, pCEP and two clinically important plasmids carrying resist...

Topics

Base Sequence
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA Primers
Escherichia coli
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Plasmids
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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