Detecting low concentrations of Shigella sonnei in environmental water samples by PCR

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-298

  Hsu, Wen Bin ^a,b   Wang, Jiann Haur ^a   Chen, Pei Chun ^a   Lu, Yu Shiou ^a,b   Chen, Jiann Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli; Insertion sequence 1; Shigella dysenteriae; Shigella sonnei; Shigellae

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 34247098942     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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