Use of the tna operon as a new molecular target for Escherichia coli detection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6321-6325

  Bernasconi, Camilla ^a   Volponi, Giorgio ^b   Picozzi, Claudia ^b,c   Foschino, Roberto ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari e Microbiologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEMODULATION; GENES; MICROORGANISMS;

MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION; REAL-TIME PCR TARGETING; SHIGELLA SPP; TNA OPERON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA; TNA GENE; TNAA GENE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SHIGELLA; TRYPTOPHANASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 35148838031     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00606-07     Document Type: Article

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