Detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in food

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-115

  Alexandre, Marcela ^a   Prado, Valeria ^b  

^a Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Norte   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bacterial toxins (generics); Diagnosis STEC in food; DNA probe hybridization; E coli O157:H7; ELISA; Food contamination; Food microbiology; Immunomagnetic separation; Infection (transmission); PCR; STEC; Tissue culture

Indexed keywords

ACRIFLAVINE; CEFIXIME; CEFSULODIN; CYTOTOXIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PEPTONE; SHIGA TOXIN; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DIARRHEA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; DNA PROBES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

EID: 0037224015     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.3.1.105     Document Type: Review

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