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SUBMITTER: Van Looveren M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC85114 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Looveren M M Ison C A CA Ieven M M Vandamme P P Martin I M IM Vermeulen K K Renton A A Goossens H H
Journal of clinical microbiology 19990701 7
A panel of 18 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, known to be temporally and geographically diverse, was used to evaluate a number of typing systems, including conventional auxotyping and serotyping and the molecular methods of arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), amplified ribosomal-DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), opa typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The discriminatory power of the different typing methods were determined with a collection of 87 clinical isolates from commercial ...[more]