Development of a serogroup-specific multiplex PCR assay to detect a set of Escherichia coli serogroups based on the identification of their O-antigen gene clusters

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 286-290

  Wang, Quan ^a,b   Ruan, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Wei, Dongmei ^a,b   Hu, Zhidong ^c   Wu, Lixia ^d   Yu, Ting ^e   Feng, Lu ^a,f   Wang, Lei ^a,b,f  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHENYANG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e THE SECOND HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f TEDA   (China)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Multiplex PCR; Serotyping; Wzx; Wzy

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA;

DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 77956059236     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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