%0 Journal Article
%T Pathogen Quantitation in Complex Matrices: A Multi-Operator Comparison of DNA Extraction Methods with a Novel Assessment of PCR Inhibition
%A Alessandra Pontiroli
%A Emma Rachel Travis
%A Francis Patrick Sweeney
%A David Porter
%A William Hugo Gaze
%A Sam Mason
%A Victoria Hibberd
%A Jennifer Holden
%A Orin Courtenay
%A Elizabeth Margaret Helen Wellington
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0017916
%X Mycobacterium bovis is the aetiological agent of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), an important recrudescent zoonosis, significantly increasing in British herds in recent years. Wildlife reservoirs have been identified for this disease but the mode of transmission to cattle remains unclear. There is evidence that viable M. bovis cells can survive in soil and faeces for over a year.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017916