Construction of luciferase reporter bacteriophage A511::luxAB for rapid and sensitive detection of viable Listeria cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1133-1140

  Loessner, Martin J ^a   Rees, Catherine E D ^b   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOST CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 0029930408     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.4.1133-1140.1996     Document Type: Article

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