Development of a rapid and sensitive method combining a cellulose ester microfilter and a real-time quantitative PCR assay to detect Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in 20 liters of drinking water or low-turbidity waters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 839-845

  Tissier, Adeline ^a,b   Denis, Martine ^c   Hartemann, Philippe ^b   Gassilloud, Benoît ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Hydrologie de Nancy   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Unit of Epidemiology and Welfare in Poultry and Rabbits   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOMES; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BEEF EXTRACTS; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERS; CELLULOSE ESTERS; CULTURE METHODS; DATA AND INFORMATION; DIRECT EXTRACTION; MICRO FILTERS; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; SENSITIVE METHOD; STANDARD DEVIATION; TAP WATER; WATER SAMPLES;

BACTERIA; CELLULOSE; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; GENES; GROUNDWATER; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURBIDITY; WATER RESOURCES;

POTABLE WATER;

DRINKING WATER;

BACTERIUM; CELLULOSE; DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FILTER; GENOME; INOCULATION; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; TURBIDITY; WATER RESOURCE; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 84856134628     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06754-11     Document Type: Article

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