In Vivo Detection and Quantification of Tetracycline by Use of a Whole-Cell Biosensor in the Rat Intestine

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1112-1117

  Bahl, Martin Iain ^a,b   Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg ^a   Licht, Tine Rask ^b   Sørensen, Søren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GNOTOBIOTICS; HOST; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 1642420382     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1112-1117.2004     Document Type: Article

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