Specific detection of Legionella pneumophila: Construction of a new 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probe

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2686-2690

  Grimm, Dorothee ^a   Merkert, Hilde ^a   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^b   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^b   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Brand, Bettina C ^a  

^a Institut fur Molekulare Infektionsbiologie   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA MICDADEI; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TATLOCKIA MICDADEI;

EID: 0031814113     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2686-2690.1998     Document Type: Article

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