Characterization of serologically nontypeable Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans isolates.

doi:10.1128/JCM.36.7.2019-2022.1998

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Characterization of serologically nontypeable Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans isolates.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 1998

Paju S, Saarela M, Alaluusua S, Fives-Taylor P, Asikainen S

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Our previous studies have shown that Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans isolates of a given arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) genotype belong to the same serotype (of serotypes a through e). In the present study we investigated whether the AP-PCR genotypes of nonserotypeable A. actinomycetemcomit...

Topics

Actinobacillus Infections
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Bacterial Typing Techniques
DNA Restriction Enzymes
DNA, Bacterial
Genotype
Humans
Middle Aged
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Serotyping

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