Plasmid profile analysis for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and detection of heat stable enterotoxin I (STI) gene by polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 220-222

  Tsen, Hau Yang ^a   Chi, Wan Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enterotoxigenic E. Coli; Heat stable toxin I; PCR; Plasmid DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142559859     PISSN: 10219498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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