Real-time PCR for quantification of Streptococcus mutans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-30

  Yano, Akira ^a   Kaneko, Noboru ^b   Ida, Hirohisa ^c   Yamaguchi, Toshikazu ^c   Hanada, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c BML   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucosyltransferase; Real time PCR; S. mutans; S. sobrinus; Saliva

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; DNA PRIMERS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DOWNEI; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

EID: 0037137212     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01028-5     Document Type: Article

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