Amplification by the polymerase chain reaction of a specific target sequence in the gene coding for Escherichia coli verotoxin (VTe variant).

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Published in FEMS Microbiol Lett on November 15, 1991

Authors

W M Johnson1, S D Tyler, G Wang, H Lior

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1: National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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