Detection of Escherichia coli with fluorescent labeled phages that have a broad host range to E. coli in sewage water

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 481-486

  Namura, Mariko ^a   Hijikata, Tomonori ^a   Miyanaga, Kazuhiko ^a   Tanji, Yasunori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYMES; MICROORGANISMS; SEWAGE;

ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; SEWAGE INFLUENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; SEWAGE;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEWAGE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIRIDAE;

EID: 42049108578     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp070326c     Document Type: Article

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