Effect of PCR amplicon length on suppressing signals from membrane-compromised cells by propidium monoazide treatment

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Contreras, Paz Jopia ^a   Urrutia, Homero ^a   Sossa, Katherine ^a   Nocker, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplicon length; Live dead discrimination; Microbial viability; Propidium monoazide; Viability PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEAT STRESS; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER SAMPLING;

AZIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROPIDIUM; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIBRIO;

FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM;

EID: 80052362316     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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