Respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia play a
major role in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF). This review summarizes the latest …

Over the last 25 years, a much broader range of taxonomic studies of bacteria has gradually
replaced the former reliance upon morphological, physiological, and biochemical …

Medical microbiology is extremely reliant on the culture of bacteria from clinical specimens
and their subsequent identification by biochemical and phenotypic characteristics for the …

The relative frequency of 10 determinants of resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, and
streptogramins was investigated by PCR in a series of 294 macrolide-, lincosamide-, and/or …

PCR-ribotyping, a typing method based on polymorphism in the 16S-23S intergenic spacer
region, has been recently used to investigate outbreaks due to Clostridium difficile …

A Burkholderia cepacia population naturally occurring in the rhizosphere of Zea mays was
investigated in order to assess the degree of root association and microbial biodiversity at …

The description of microbial diversity by molecular culture-independent techniques most
often involves the amplification of the 16S rRNA by PCR gene and either analysis of the …

Many biochemical and molecular techniques can be used for distinguishing isolates of a
given bacterial species. Traditional typing techniques based on phenotypic characteristics …

As more original molecular protocols and subsequent modifications are described in the
literature, it has become difficult for those not directly involved in the development of these …

Using high resolution molecular fingerprinting techniques like random amplification of
polymorphic DNA, repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR and multilocus enzyme …