Parameters affecting spore recovery from wipes used in biological surface sampling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2374-2380

  Da Silva, Sandra M ^a   Filliben, James J ^a   Morrow, Jayne B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACIS SPORES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STERNE; BIOLOGICAL SURFACES; CENTRIFUGE TUBES; DISSOCIATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; EXTRACTION SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINES; REFERENCE CONTROL; SAMPLING MATERIALS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SURFACE SAMPLING; SURFACE THERMODYNAMICS; TWEEN 80; VORTEXING;

BACTERIOLOGY; CELLULOSE; CENTRIFUGATION; COTTON; DEIONIZED WATER; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATERIALS; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; PHASE INTERFACES; RAYON; SONICATION; SURFACES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EXTRACTION;

BUFFER;

BACTERIUM; POLYMER; SAMPLING; SPORE; SURFACTANT; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ULTRASOUND;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BUFFERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; SONICATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. STERNE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 79953288114     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01932-10     Document Type: Article

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