[Genotyping of clinical isolates of MRSA by PFGE and AP-PCR].

doi:10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.71.620

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[Genotyping of clinical isolates of MRSA by PFGE and AP-PCR].

Kansenshogaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 1997

Kobayashi M, Ohara-Nemoto Y, Kaneko M

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Genotyping of 67 clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) separated from patients in a hospital in Mizusawa City in 1994 and 1995 was studied by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and arbitrarily primed-polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR). Two main genotypes wer...

Topics

DNA, Bacterial
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Genome, Bacterial
Genotype
Humans
Methicillin Resistance
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Staphylococcus aureus

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