Contributions of Molecular Epidemiology to the Understanding of Infectious Disease Transmission, Pathogenesis, and Evolution

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
3445707	Annals of Epidemiology	2007	9 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Applications of epidemiologic principles to bacterial populations gives insight into the natural history of colonization and transmission in the human host.

Keywords

UTI GBS MLST ERIC PFGE Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Molecular epidemiology Multilocus sequence typing Infectious disease urinary tract infection polymerase chain reaction PCR Bacterial pathogens group B Streptococcus