BMC Microbiology

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Development and application of the active surveillance of pathogens microarray to monitor bacterial gene flux

Richard A Stabler1, Lisa F Dawson1, Petra CF Oyston2, Richard W Titball3, Jim Wade4, Jason Hinds5, Adam A Witney5 and Brendan W Wren1*

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1 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Keppel Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, UK

2 Biomedical Sciences, DSTL, Porton Down, Salisbury, SP4 0JQ, UK

3 School of Biosciences, The University of Exeter, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX5 5QJ, UK

4 King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS, UK

5 Bacterial microarray group, St. George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK

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BMC Microbiology 2008, 8:177 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-8-177

Published: 9 October 2008

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ASP oligonucleotide reporters

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List of oligonucleotides used in the vectorette library construction, vectorette PCR and sequencing

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ASP oligonucleotide reporters were designed from 99 different bacterial genera including 151 different species and 205 separate fully sequenced genomes.

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