Assessment of a real-time PCR for the detection and characterization of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1082-1085

  Jenkins, Claire ^a   Lawson, Andy J ^a   Cheasty, Tom ^a   Willshaw, Geraldine A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VEROCYTOTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUROPEAN UNION; FECES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84864107520     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.041517-0     Document Type: Article

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