Advancing bacteriophage-based microbial diagnostics with synthetic biology

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 325-327

  Lu, Timothy K ^a,b   Bowers, Jayson ^a   Koeris, Michael S ^a,b  

^a Sample6 Technologies   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LETTER; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL DIAGNOSTIC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84878148231     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2013.03.009     Document Type: Letter

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