Slot blot immunoassay as a tool for plasmid-encoded toxin detection in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli culture supernatants

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-106

  Vilhena Costa, Andréa Bernardes ^a   Piazza, Roxane Maria Fontes ^b   Nara, Júlia Mitico ^b   Trabulsi, Luiz Rachid ^b   Martinez, Marina Baquerizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

EAEC; Pet; polyclonal antibody; slot blot immunoassay

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLOT BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMMUNOASSAY; PLASMIDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 33646839079     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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