Detection and quantification of Shiga toxin-encoding genes in sheep faeces by real-time PCR

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 363-370

  Sekse, Camilla ^a   Solberg, Asta ^a   Petersen, Anne ^a   Rudi, Knut ^b   Wasteson, Yngvild ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Faeces; Quantification; Real time PCR; Shiga toxin (Stx) producing Escherichia coli; stx1; stx2

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24644486974     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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