Detection of st-producing ETEC from watery and formed stools using DNA hybridization and the infant mouse assay
An alkaline-phosphatase conjugated oligonucleotide probe for detecting the heat-stable enterotoxin gene of Escherichia coli was compared with the infant mouse bioassay by examining 360 clinical isolates from stools of PGH patients. Of the 240 E. coli isolates from watery stools, 13 (5.42 ) heat-stab...
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1992
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