Failure to detect Helicobacter pylori DNA in drinking and environmental water in Dhaka, Bangladesh, using highly sensitive real-time PCR assays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3039-3044

  Janzon, Anders ^a,c   Sjöling, Åsa ^a   Lothigius, Åsa ^a   Ahmed, Dilruba ^b   Qadri, Firdausi ^b   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DETECTION LEVELS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; NATURAL WATERS; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY; TRANSMISSION ROUTE; WATER SAMPLES;

BACTERIA; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

POTABLE WATER;

BACTERIAL DNA; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOFILM; DNA; DRINKING WATER; EXTRACTION METHOD; GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BANGLADESH; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

BANGLADESH; DNA, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 66249105361     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02779-08     Document Type: Article

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