Bacillus Spore Inactivation Methods Affect Detection Assays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3665-3670

  Dang, Jessica L ^a   Heroux, Karen ^a   Kearney, John ^b   Arasteh, Ameneh ^c   Gostomski, Mark ^c   Emanuel, Peter A ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SPORE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISINFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DISINFECTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TAQ POLYMERASE;

EID: 0035433192     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3665-3670.2001     Document Type: Article

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