What does RAPD stand for?

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis has been used to analyze relationships between clinical and environmental B.

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analyses of four different populations of the Indian major carp.

Detection of genetic relationships among four Artemia species using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD).

Molecular typing by using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and antifungal drug susceptibility testing were performed on clinical and environmental isolates recovered from our hospital from 1999 to 2003.

To evaluate the stock structure of yellowfin tuna in eastern Pacific, we employed analyses of allozymes and of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPDs).

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism, ribotyping, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis have also demonstrated the clonal dissemination of strains within a family, concluding that family cross infection occurred or that the family members were infected by a common source (5,8,13,20).

A number of molecular methods, including multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of restriction enzyme digest products of genomic DNA, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, and multilocus sequence typing (MLST), have been used to demonstrate that the population of GBS that infects humans is highly clonal and limited to a relatively small number of phylogenctic lineages (9-13).

Other studies have compared the relatedness of strains from drinking water and stool by fatty acid methyl ester profiles (28), ribotyping (29), and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (30), all highly discriminatory subtyping methods, and found little similarity between clinical and environmental isolates.