Evaluation of enzyme immunoassays and real-time PCR for detecting Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in southern Alberta, Canada

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1019-1023

  Chui, Linda ^a,b   Patterson Fortin, Laura ^a   Kuo, Julie ^a   Li, Vincent ^a   Boras, Valerie ^c  

^a PROVINCIAL LABORATORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Chinook Regional Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ALBERTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALBERTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84923374873     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03288-14     Document Type: Article

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