Microbiology

Accurate identification of fastidious Gram-negative rods: integration of both conventional phenotypic methods and 16S rRNA gene analysis

MG de Melo Oliveira, S. Abels, R. Zbinden, GV Bloemberg, and A. Zbinden. BioMed Central. BMC Microbiology 2013, 13:162. This article is open access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/13/162. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Citation: “... BLAST search of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences was performed by using SmartGene database ... The SmartGene database is updated with the newest 16S rRNA gene sequences from NCBI GenBank through an automated process every day ...”