Sensitive detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food and water by immunomagnetic separation and solid-phase laser cytometry

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1966-1972

  Pyle, Barry H ^a   Broadaway, Susan C ^a   McFeters, Gordon A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; PEPTONE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL COUNT; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; WATER ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032925363     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.1966-1972.1999     Document Type: Article

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