Development of a fluorogenic probe-based PCR assay for detection of Bacillus cereus in nonfat dry milk

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1453-1459

  Kim, Young Rok ^a   Czajka, John ^a   Batt, Carl A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MILK; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLUORESCENT DYES; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MILK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034087466     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1453-1459.2000     Document Type: Article

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