Culture-free detection and enumeration of STEC in water

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 551-557

  Ram, S ^a   Vajpayee, P ^a   Dwivedi, P D ^a   Shanker, R ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Culture independent quantification; Molecular Beacon; Real time PCR; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; Surface and potable water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; SURFACE WATER; VEROTOXIN 2;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; DRINKING WATER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE WATER; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD SAFETY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HEALTH HAZARD; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR BEACON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRESH WATER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955524430     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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