DNA signature-based approaches for bacterial detection and identification

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3641-3651

  Albuquerque, Pedro ^a,b   Mendes, Marta V ^a   Santos, Catarina L ^a,b   Moradas Ferreira, Pedro ^a,b   Tavares, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Diagnostic microarrays; Diagnostic microbiology; DNA signatures; Molecular markers; PCR; Typing methods

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC MICROARRAYS; DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MARKERS; PCR; TYPING METHODS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOINFORMATICS; COSMIC RAYS; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PUMPS;

BACTERIA;

DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; IDENTIFICATION KEY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CLONE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65049086384     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.054     Document Type: Article

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