PCR for the specific detection of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 laboratory control strain

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1738-1744

  Knowles, Michael ^a   Lambert, Dominic ^a   Huszczynski, George ^a   Gauthier, Martine ^a   Blais, Burton W ^a  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84941043919     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: 19449097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-15-147     Document Type: Article

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