Highly discriminatory single-nucleotide polymorphism interrogation of escherichia coli by use of allele-specific real-time PCR and eBURST analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4337-4345

  Sheludchenko, Maxim S ^a   Huygens, Flavia ^a   Hargreaves, Megan H ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED ANALYSIS; E. COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; FECAL SOURCES; HOST SOURCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; QUEENSLAND; REAL-TIME PCR; SIMPSON'S INDEX; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUEENSLAND; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77954259631     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00128-10     Document Type: Article

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