Real-time fluorescence PCR assays for detection and characterization of heat-labile I and heat-stable I enterotoxin genes from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4092-4100

  Reischl, Udo ^a,d   Youssef, Mohammad T ^b,c   Wolf, Hans ^a   Hyytia Trees, Eija ^c   Strockbine, Nancy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME FLUORESCENCE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

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

EID: 4644268877     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.9.4092-4100.2004     Document Type: Article

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