Detection of enterotoxigenic escherichia coli, shigella and campylobacter spp. by multiplex PCR assay

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-210

  Oyofo, Buhari A ^a   Mohran, Zaynab S ^a   El Etr, Sahar H ^a   Wasfy, Momtaz O ^a   Peruski Jr , Leonard F ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Campylobacter, polymerase chain reaction; Diarrhoea; Dysentery, bacillary; Escherichia coli, enterotoxigenic; Shigella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA;

CAMPYLOBACTER; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA;

EID: 0030227117     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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