Improved detection of F-specific RNA coliphages in fecal material by extraction and polyethylene glycol precipitation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6142-6146

  Jones, Tineke H ^a   Johns, Michael W ^a  

^a LACOMBE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEEF EXTRACTS; COLIPHAGES; F-SPECIFIC RNA COLIPHAGES; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL MATERIALS; FECAL SAMPLES; NORMAL COMPONENT; SAMPLE SIZES;

MAMMALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PELLETIZING; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMOPLASTICS;

EXTRACTION;

BACTERIAL RNA; MACROGOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; FECAL COLIFORM; MALE BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PH; POLYMER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RNA; SAMPLING; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; COLIPHAGES; FECES; HUMANS; PLAQUE ASSAY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RNA PHAGES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 70349416532     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00436-09     Document Type: Article

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