METHOD FOR DETECTION AND QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF NITROSOMONAS BACTERIA IN WASTE WATER OR SOIL

摘要

The detection method for the determination of Nitrosomonas strains in waste water and soil makes use of a gene probe which, by reason of its complementary sequences, hybridises only with parts of the genome of Nitrosomonas strains from samples of waste water or soil and does not give a positive hybridisation signal with parts of the genome of other bacteria and entails the hybridised nucleic acid being determined quantitatively with the aid of a known label on the gene probe and thus providing a direct measure of the content of Nitrosomonas strains in the sample of waste water or soil.