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Purification of a High Molecular Mass Protein in Streptococcus mutans
Published on: September 14, 2019
Repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR for study of Streptococcus mutans diversity and transmission in human
S A Moser1, S C Mitchell, J D Ruby
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Room P230, 619 19th St., South, Birmingham, AL 35249-7331, USA. moser@uab.edu
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 17, 2009
Abstract:
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is considered the "gold standard" for molecular epidemiological study. Repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) is less time-consuming and more suitable for analyzing large numbers of bacterial strains in human populations. PFGE and rep-PCR provide comparable genotyping results for investigating Streptococcus mutans diversity and transmission.

