Identification of Listeria innocua by PCR targeting a putative transcriptional regulator gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-210

  Liu, Dongyou ^a   Ainsworth, A Jerald ^a   Austin, Frank W ^a   Lawrence, Mark L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Listeria innocua; Polymerase chain reaction; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LISTERIA INNOCUA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0038095202     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00378-1     Document Type: Article

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