Species-specific identification of Vibrio fluvialis by PCR targeted to the conserved transcriptional activation and variable membrane tether regions of the toxR gene [3]

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 805-808

  Chakraborty, Rupa ^a   Sinha, Sutapa ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a   Asakura, Masahiro ^b   Yamasaki, Shinji ^b   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^c   Ramamurthy, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INDIA; LETTER; MEMBRANE TETHER REGION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIBRIO FLUVIALIS;

AEROMONAS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO;

EID: 33744958737     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46395-0     Document Type: Letter

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