Improved methods for in situ enzymatic amplification and detection of low copy number genes in bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-73

  Jacobs, Daniel ^a   Angles, Mark L ^a   Goodman, Amanda E ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Gene; In situ; Plasmid; Polymerase chain reaction; Primed in situ amplification

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM;

EID: 0030787582     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00180-8     Document Type: Article

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