Picard-Pasquier N, Ouagued M, Picard B, Goullet P, Krishnamoorthy R
Institut de Pathologie Moléculaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France.
Electrophoresis. 1989 Mar;10(3):186-9. doi: 10.1002/elps.1150100306.
A rapid DNA extraction procedure and random primer labelling of Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA with cloned reverse transcriptase have been used to establish a simple and highly sensitive method for studying ribosomal DNA polymorphism in bacteria. Examples of inter- and intraspecies differentiation of bacteria are given and potential applications in bacterial epidemiology and taxonomy are discussed.