Epidemiological tracing ofSalmonella entericaserotype Abortusovis from Spanish ovine flocks by PFGE fingerprinting

Fingerprinting Viral Assemblages by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE)

Viruses are the most abundant microorganisms in marine and freshwater environments and perhaps the most genetically diverse (Fuhrman and Suttle, 1993). Counting viruses in aquatic samples is now a routine matter, but assessing the diversity and dynamics within complex assemblages is still a challenge. DNA-based fingerprinting approaches, which rely on amplification of rRNA gene fragments by PCR...

Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing

Serology as an Epidemiological Tool for Salmonella Abortusovis Surveillance in the Wild-Domestic Ruminant Interface

Salmonella sp, are opportunistic pathogens that can infect a wide range of hosts, including man (Murray, 1991). The increasing numbers of Salmonella infections reported in the last decades reveal an important health problem of considerable socio-economic impact (Kapperud et al., 1998). Salmonellosis has been reported in 85% of food-borne bacterial enteritis in humans from Spain (Pérez-Ciordia, ...

DNA fingerprinting of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) in a teaching hospital in Malaysia.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been prevalent in our hospital over the last three years. Differentiation among MRSA strains by DNA typing in addition to antibiotic resistance pattern surveillance is crucial in order to implement infection control measures. The aim of this study was to characterize MRSA isolates from patients admitted to Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Mal...

Gossip Codes for Fingerprinting: Construction, Erasure Analysis and Pirate Tracing

This work presents two new construction techniques for q-ary Gossip codes from tdesigns and Traceability schemes. These Gossip codes achieve the shortest code length specified in terms of code parameters and can withstand erasures in digital fingerprinting applications. This work presents the construction of embedded Gossip codes for extending an existing Gossip code into a bigger code. It disc...