Evaluation and implementation of a membrane filter method for Cronobacter detection in drinking water

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-68

  Liu, Hui ^a   Yang, Yuelian ^a   Cui, Jinghua ^b   Liu, Lanzheng ^a   Liu, Huiyuan ^a   Hu, Guangchun ^a   Shi, Yuwen ^a   Li, Jian ^a  

^a Jinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b Chinese Center for Decease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Cronobacter; Drinking water; FusA; Membrane filter method; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLORINATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; EVALUATION RESEARCH; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LETTER; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

CRONOBACTER; DRINKING WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROPORE FILTERS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PHYLOGENY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84879132597     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12155     Document Type: Letter

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