Competitive touchdown PCR for estimation of Escherichia coli DNA recovery in soil DNA extraction

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-38

  Rose, Peter ^a   Harkin, John M ^a   Hickey, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive; Escherichia coli; PCR; Quantitation; Soil; Touchdown

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOAM SOIL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT RECOVERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPIKE; TITRIMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037208462     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(02)00131-8     Document Type: Article

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