When is a microbial culture "Pure"? Persistent cryptic contaminant escapes detection even with deep genome sequencing

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Shrestha, Pravin Malla ^a   Nevin, Kelly P ^a   Shrestha, Minita ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; OMCS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANODE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEEP GENOME SEQUENCING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRODE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION;

COINFECTION; ELECTRODES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOBACTER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84880050615     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00591-12     Document Type: Article

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