Glutamate Decarboxylase Genes as a Prescreening Marker for Detection of Pathogenic Escherichia coli Groups

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3110-3114

  Grant, Michael A ^a   Weagant, Stephen D ^a   Feng, Peter ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PROBE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PROBES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035403498     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3110-3114.2001     Document Type: Article

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