Insertion/deletion-based approach for the detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in freshwater environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11462-11470

  Wong, Shirley Y ^a   Paschos, Athanasios ^a   Gupta, Radhey S ^b   Schellhorn, Herb E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER SUPPLY;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS; DIRECT IDENTIFICATIONS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; PATHOGEN DETECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YBIX PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FRESH WATER; PRIMER DNA;

BIOASSAY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE TARGETING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INDEL MUTATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; WATER CONTAMINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84907929421     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502794h     Document Type: Article

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