Application of duplex-PCR in rapid and reliable detection of toxigenic vibrio cholerae in water samples in Thailand

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 229-237

  Chomvarin, Chariya ^a   Namwat, Wises ^a   Wongwajana, Suwin ^a   Alam, Muniral ^b   Thaew Nonngiew, Kesorn Thaew ^c   Sinchaturus, Anuchit ^c   Engchanil, Chulapan ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c The Office of Communicable Disease Control   (Thailand)

Author keywords

ctxA; Duplex PCR; tcpA; Vibrio cholerae; Water samples

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN A SUBUNIT; DRINKING WATER; PEPTONE; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; TOXIN COREGULATED PILUS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; TCPA PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; FILTRATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THAILAND; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA TOXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THAILAND; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 35448970547     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.53.229     Document Type: Article

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