molecular epidemiology

molecular epidemiology is an offshoot of molecular genetics.here genetic methods such as
plasma profile analysis,genomic fingerprinting,and PCR are used to
isolate and match the microbial isolates for epidemiological purposes
two methods used are
1.phenotype
2.genotype
the methods for phenotype are
1.immunoblotting and electrophoretic typing of bacterial proteins
the methods for genotype are 1.plasma profile analysis
2.restriction endonuclease analysis of chromosomalDNa with southern blotting
3.polymerase chain reaction
and nucleotide sequence analysis
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