Detection, isolation, and identification of Vibrio cholerae from the environment.

ABSTRACT: Recent molecular advances in microbiology have greatly improved the detection of bacterial pathogens in the environment. These improvements and a downward trend in the cost of molecular detection methods have contributed to increased frequency of detection of pathogenic microorganisms where traditional culture-based detection methods have failed. Culture methods also have been greatly improved, and the confluence of the two suites of methods provides a powerful tool for detection, isolation, and characterization of pathogens. While molecular detection provides data on the presence and type of pathogens, culturing methods allow a researcher to preserve the organism of interest for "-omics" studies, such as genomic, metabolomic, secretomic, and transcriptomic analysis, which are rapidly beco

SUBMITTER: Huq A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3461827 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature