Development and application of real-time PCR assays for quantification of genes encoding tetracycline resistance

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6926-6933

  Yu, Zhongtang ^a   Michel Jr , Frederick C ^a   Hansen, Glenn ^a   Wittum, Thomas ^a   Morrison, Mark ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOFILTERS; COMPOSTING; CULTIVATION; DNA; PROTEINS;

BOVINE MANURES; PCR ASSAYS; SWINE MANURE;

GENES;

TETRACYCLINE;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACCURACY; AGRICULTURE; AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILTER; COMPOST; COW; DNA TEMPLATE; EFFLUENT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAGOON; MANURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; TETA GENE; TETB GENE; TETC GENE; TETG GENE; TETM GENE; TETO GENE; TETP GENE; TETT GENE; TETW GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MANURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

AGRICULTURE; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 32044438887     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6926-6933.2005     Document Type: Article

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