PCR detection of Serratia spp. using primers targeting pfs and luxS genes involved in AI-2-dependent quorum sensing

Current Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 326-330

  Zhu, Hu ^a   Sun, Shu Jing ^b   Dang, Hong Yue ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERRATIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; HUMANS; LACTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUORUM SENSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SERRATIA;

EID: 50249185260     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9197-6     Document Type: Article

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