Culture-independent analysis of fecal enterobacteria in environmental samples by single-cell mRNA profiling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4432-4439

  Chen, Han ^a   Ponniah, Gomathinayagam ^a   Salonen, Nancy ^a   Blum, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

FECAL ENTEROBACTERIA; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; INCUBATION TIME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

RNA;

DNA; FLUOROCHROME; MESSENGER RNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; DISINFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MESSENGER RNA PROFILING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAXONOMY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; FECES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4143096968     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4432-4439.2004     Document Type: Article

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