A genomically modified marker strain of Escherichia coli

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 341-346

  Animons, David ^a,b   Rampersad, Joanne ^a,b   Fox, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEWAGE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARENA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3743149452     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900389     Document Type: Article

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