Detection of Escherichia coli serogroups O26, O103, O111 and O145 from bovine faeces using immunomagnetic separation and PCR/DNA probe techniques

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-212

  Jenkins, C ^a,b,e   Pearce, M C ^c,d   Smith, A W ^c,d   Knight, H I ^c,d   Shaw, D J ^c   Cheasty, T ^a   Foster, G ^d   Gunn, G J ^d   Dougan, G ^b   Smith, H R ^a   Frankel, G ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E. coli; IMS; PCR DNA probes; VTEC

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; GENES; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; BOVINE FECES; DNA PROBE; E. COLI; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; PCR/DNA PROBE; SEROGROUPS; VEROCYTOTOXIN; VEROCYTOTOXIN-PRODUCING E COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; VEROTOXIN;

DETECTION METHOD; FECAL COLIFORM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0041376990     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2003.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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