Comparing real-time and conventional PCR to culture-based methods for detecting and quantifying Escherichia coli O157 in cattle feces

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-319

  Jacob, M E ^a   Bai, J ^b   Renter, D G ^b   Rogers, A T ^a   Shi, X ^b   Nagaraja, T G ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BOVINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENETICS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2;

EID: 84893476481     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-13-304     Document Type: Article

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