Quantification of toxic cyanobacteria in water by use of competitive PCR followed by sequence-specific labeling of oligonucleotide probes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2639-2643

  Rudi, Knut ^a   Skulberg, Olav M ^b   Larsen, Frank ^c   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Dynal AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031813764     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2639-2643.1998     Document Type: Article

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