Capacity of nine thermostable DNA polymerases to mediate DNA amplification in the presence of PCR-inhibiting samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3748-3753

  Abu Al Soud, Waleed ^a   Rådström, Peter ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEESE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FECES ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0000374167     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3748-3753.1998     Document Type: Article

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