A high-throughput open-array qPCR gene panel to identify, virulotype, and subtype O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 222-230

  Gonzales, Tina K ^a   Kulow, Megan ^a   Park, Dong Jin ^b   Kaspar, Charles W ^b   Anklam, Kelly S ^a   Pertzborn, Kelly M ^a   Kerrish, Kristen D ^a   Ivanek, Renata ^c   Döpfer, Dörte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EHEC; Escherichia coli; OpenArray; Real time PCR; Shiga toxin

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC MARKERS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; O ANTIGENS; PROPHAGES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80055082992     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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