Environmental monitoring of Mycobacterium bovis in badger feces and badger sett soil by real-time PCR, as confirmed by immunofluorescence, immunocapture, and cultivation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7471-7473

  Sweeney, F P ^a   Courtenay, O ^a   Hibberd, V ^a   Hewinson, R G ^b   Reilly, L A ^a   Gaze, W H ^a   Wellington, E M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION;

BADGER FECES; CELL VIABILITY; IMMUNOCAPTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; WILDLIFE;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CULTIVATION; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; IMMUNOASSAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BADGER; CATTLE; CELL VIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL POLLUTION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUSTELIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BOS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 36649020920     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00978-07     Document Type: Article

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