DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.11.4289-4294.2002
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History
- Received April 25, 2002
- Returned for modification June 21, 2002
- Accepted August 6, 2002
- Published online November 1, 2002.
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- Keiko Okuma1,
- Kozue Iwakawa1,
- John D. Turnidge2,
- Warren B. Grubb3,
- Jan M. Bell2,
- Frances G. O'Brien3,
- Geoffrey W. Coombs4,
- John W. Pearman4,
- Fred C. Tenover5,
- Maria Kapi1,
- Chuntima Tiensasitorn1,
- Teruyo Ito1 and
- Keiichi Hiramatsu1*
- 1Department of Bacteriology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide
- 3Molecular Genetics Research Unit, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University of Technology
- 4Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
- 5National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333
- ↵* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 113-8421. Phone: 81 (3) 5802-10410. Fax: 81 (3) 5684-7830. E-mail: hiram{at}med.juntendo.ac.jp .