title: Enumeration and identification of bacteria from environmental samples using nucleic acid probes.
abstract: DNA probes are useful for both identification and enumeration of specific bacteria and functional groups of bacteria in environmental samples. Because probes can detect genes, chromosomes, and plasmids, they also promise to be major sources of information about the relatedness of bacteria and groups of bacteria in the environment.
authors.affiliation: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Savannah River Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Aiken, South Carolina 29808-0001.
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Hazen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiménez
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D015342:DNA Probes; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes