A real-time quantitative PCR assay for evaluating Clostridium difficile adherence to differentiated intestinal Caco-2 cells

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 920-924

  Dingle, Tanis ^a   Mulvey, George L ^a   Humphries, Romney M ^a   Armstrong, Glen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BACTERIAL COUNT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CACO-2 CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

EID: 77955298569     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.019752-0     Document Type: Article

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