Evaluation of seven different commercially available real-time PCR assays for detection of Shiga toxin 1 and 2 gene subtypes

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 871-873

  Margot, Heike ^a   Cernela, Nicole ^a   Iversen, Carol ^b   Zweifel, Claudio ^a   Stephan, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

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ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878369706     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-12-365     Document Type: Article

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