Monitoring bacterial pathogens in the environment: Advantages of a multilayered approach

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-325

  Pickup, Roger W ^a   Rhodes, Glenn ^a   Hermon Taylor, John ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLOOD TIDE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SALMONELLA; TARGET CELL; TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; SALMONELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0038482046     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(03)00069-7     Document Type: Review

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