Environmental monitoring of waterborne Campylobacter: evaluation of the Australian Standard and a hybrid extraction-free MPN-PCR method.

Campylobacter is the leading agent of diarrheal disease worldwide. This study evaluates a novel culture-PCR hybrid (MPN-PCR) assay for the rapid enumeration of Campylobacter spp. from estuarine and wastewater systems. To first evaluate the current, culture-based, Australian standard, an inter-labora...

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Main Authors: Rebekah eHenry, Christelle eSchang, gayani echandrasena, Ana eDeletic, Mark eEdmunds, dusan ejovanovic, peter ekolotelo, richard ewilliamson, Jonathan eSchmidt, David eMcCarthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
PCR
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00074/full