A rapid approach for the detection of dipicolinic acid in bacterial spores using pyrolysis/mass spectrometry

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 455-458

  Beverly, Michael B ^a   Basile, Franco ^a   Voorhees, Kent J ^a   Hadfield, Ted L ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PYROLYSIS;

BACTERIAL SPORE; CURIE-POINT-PYROLYSIS; DIPICOLINIC ACIDS; ELECTRON IONIZATION; MICROTUBE; PYROLYSIS MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUADRUPOLE ION TRAPS; TRIPLE-QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBE FURNACES; WHOLE CELL;

POSITIVE IONS;

EID: 0030046650     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(19960315)10:4<455::AID-RCM500>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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