Detection of enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens in meat samples by using molecular methods

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7526-7532

  Kaneko, Ikuko ^a   Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Mimura, Kanako ^a   Yumine, Natsuko ^a   Utsunomiya, Hirotoshi ^a   Akimoto, Shigeru ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CONTAMINATION; BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; BACTERIAL DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DETECTION LIMITS; DNA-TEMPLATE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC; ENTEROTOXIN; FOOD SAMPLES; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; INHIBITORY COMPOUNDS; LOW FREQUENCY; MATRIX; MEAT SAMPLES; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MOLECULAR ASSAYS; MOLECULAR METHODS; NESTED PCR; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; REAL-TIME PCR; VEGETATIVE CELLS;

ASSAYS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTAMINATION; DNA; GENES; MEATS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INHIBITION; MEAT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; SAMPLING; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROTOXINS; MEAT; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83155163757     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06216-11     Document Type: Article

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