Application of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) coupled with ethidium monoazide treatment for selective quantification of viable bacteria in aquatic environment

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1107-1112

  Inoue, D ^a   Tsutsui, H ^a   Yamazaki, Y ^a   Sei, K ^a   Soda, S ^a   Fujita, M ^b   Ike, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquatic environment; Real time EMA PCR; Viable but non culturable state; Viable population

Indexed keywords

AZIDE; ETHIDIUM AZIDE; LAKE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AZIDES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 55349118139     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.474     Document Type: Article

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