Comparison of Different Approaches to Quantify Staphylococcus aureus Cells by Real-Time Quantitative PCR and Application of This Technique for Examination of Cheese

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3122-3126

  Hein, Ingeborg ^a   Lehner, Angelika ^a   Rieck, Petra ^a   Klein, Kurt ^b   Brandl, Ernst ^a   Wagner, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Biomedica GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SYBR GREEN I; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CHEESE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUOROMETRY; GENE DOSAGE; HEAT; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAQ POLYMERASE;

EID: 0035407042     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3122-3126.2001     Document Type: Article

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