Genotyping of present-day and historical geobacillus species isolates from milk powders by high-resolution melt analysis of multiple variable-number tandem-repeat loci

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7090-7097

  Seale, R Brent ^a   Dhakal, Rajat ^a   Chauhan, Kanika ^a   Craven, Heather M ^b   Deeth, Hilton C ^a   Pillidge, Christopher J ^c   Powell, Ian B ^c   Turnera, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Dairy Innovation Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; GENOTYPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; MILK POWDER; POLYMORPHIC DNA; POWDER SAMPLES; PROCESSING PLANTS; RAPD-PCR; SPORE COUNT;

POWDERS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; MILK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; SAMPLING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOBACILLUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MOLECULAR TYPING; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOOD HANDLING; GENOTYPE; GEOBACILLUS; MILK; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

GEOBACILLUS;

EID: 84868519803     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01817-12     Document Type: Article

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