Most Probable Number Method Combined with Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection and Enumeration of Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens in Intestinal Contents of Cattle, Pig and Chicken

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-92

  Miwa, Norinaga ^a   Nishina, Tokuhiro ^a   Kubo, Shuichiro ^b   Atsumi, Mikio ^a  

^a Shizuoka Pref W Meat Inspection C   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Enterotoxin; MPN; PCR

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GALLUS GALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; STOMACH JUICE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; PROBABILITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0031067523     PISSN: 09167250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.59.89     Document Type: Article

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