A simple filtration technique to detect enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 and its toxins in beef by multiplex PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4127-4131

  Venkateswaran, Kasthuri ^a,c   Kamijoh, Yuri ^a   Ohashi, Eiji ^a   Nakanishi, Hisao ^b  

^a NIPPON SUISAN KAISHA LTD   (Japan)

^b Public Health Research Institute of Kobe City   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INOCULATION; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030756323     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.4127-4131.1997     Document Type: Review

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