Microbiology
Investigators at Texas A&M University, Research Center have published new data on microbiology
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, September 16th, 2007
Current study results from the report, "Direct comparison of four bacterial source tracking methods and use of composite data sets," have been published. "Four bacterial source tracking (BST) methods, Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR), automated ribotyping using HindIII, Kirby-Bauer antibiotic resistance analysis (KB-ARA) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were directly compared using the same collection of Escherichia coli isolates. The data sets from each BST method and from composite methods were compared for library accuracy and their ability to identify water isolates. Potential sources of faecal...
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