PCR-based diagnostics for infectious diseases: uses, limitations, and future applications in acute-care settings

S Yang, RE Rothman - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2004‏ - thelancet.com
Molecular diagnostics are revolutionising the clinical practice of infectious disease. Their
effects will be significant in acute-care settings where timely and accurate diagnostic tools …

American Foulbrood in honeybees and its causative agent, Paenibacillus larvae

E Genersch - Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2010‏ - Elsevier
After more than a century of American Foulbrood (AFB) research, this fatal brood infection is
still among the most deleterious bee diseases. Its etiological agent is the Gram-positive …

Distribution of repetitive DNA sequences in eubacteria and application to finerpriting of bacterial enomes

J Versalovic, T Koeuth, R Lupski - Nucleic acids research, 1991‏ - academic.oup.com
Dispersed repetitive DNA sequences have been described recently in eubacteria. To assess
the distribution and evolutionary conservation of two distinct prokaryotic repetitive elements …

Principles and applications of methods for DNA-based ty** of microbial organisms

DM Olive, P Bean - Journal of clinical microbiology, 1999‏ - journals.asm.org
Outbreaks of infectious disease often result from exposure to a common source of the
etiologic agent. Generally, the etiologic agent causing an outbreak of infection is derived …

Specific genomic fingerprints of phytopathogenic Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas pathovars and strains generated with repetitive sequences and PCR

FJ Louws, DW Fulbright, CT Stephens… - Applied and …, 1994‏ - journals.asm.org
DNA primers corresponding to conserved motifs in bacterial repetitive (REP, ERIC, and
BOX) elements and PCR were used to show that REP-, ERIC-, and BOX-like DNA …

Use of repetitive (repetitive extragenic palindromic and enterobacterial repetitive intergeneric consensus) sequences and the polymerase chain reaction to fingerprint …

FJ De Bruijn - Applied and environmental microbiology, 1992‏ - journals.asm.org
The distribution of dispersed repetitive DNA (repetitive extragenic palindromic [REP] and
enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus [ERIC]) sequences in the genomes of a …

Short-sequence DNA repeats in prokaryotic genomes

A Van Belkum, S Scherer, L Van Alphen… - Microbiology and …, 1998‏ - journals.asm.org
Short-sequence DNA repeat (SSR) loci can be identified in all eukaryotic and many
prokaryotic genomes. These loci harbor short or long stretches of repeated nucleotide …

Widespread Distribution of Urinary Tract Infections Caused by a Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Clonal Group

AR Manges, JR Johnson, B Foxman… - New England journal …, 2001‏ - Mass Medical Soc
Background The management of urinary tract infections is complicated by the increasing
prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Escherichia coli. We studied the clonal …

A highly conserved repeated DNA element located in the chromosome of Streptococcus pneumoniae

B Martin, O Humbert, M Camara, E Guenzi… - Nucleic acids …, 1992‏ - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of a group of highly conserved DNA sequences located, in those
cases studied, within intergenic regions of the chromosome of the Gram positive …

Isolation, characterisation and identification of lactobacilli focusing mainly on cheeses and other dairy products

V Coeuret, S Dubernet, M Bernardeau, M Gueguen… - Le Lait, 2003‏ - lait.dairy-journal.org
During the last fifteen years, the Lactobacillus genus has evolved and contains to date more
than 80 species. They are present in raw milk and dairy products such as cheeses, yoghurts …