Identification of shiga toxin-producing bacteria by a new immuno-capture toxin gene PCR

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-42

  Luo, Wen ^a   Wang, Sanying ^a   Peng, Xuanxian ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial diagnosis; Immuno capture; Shiga toxin; Shigella dysenteriae; Shigella spp.

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SEWAGE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0037195376     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01005-4     Document Type: Article

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