Detection of Viable Vibrio cholerae by Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Part B Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Bej, Asim K ^a   Ng, Wee Yao ^a   Morgan, Shellie ^a   Jones, Daniel D ^a   Mahbubani, Meena H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Miles College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial RNA purification; Gastrointestinal pathogen; RT PCR; Viable bacterial detection; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; METHODS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0030074467     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02762407     Document Type: Article

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