Simultaneous determination of gene expression and bacterial identity in single cells in defined mixtures of pure cultures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3698-3702

  Poulsen, Lars K ^a,c   Dalton, Helen M ^b   Angles, Mark L ^b   Marshall, Kevin C ^b   Molin, Søren ^a   Goodman, Amanda E ^b,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RNA PROBE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030779915     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.9.3698-3702.1997     Document Type: Article

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