Monitoring of genetically modified Lactococcus lactis in gnotobiotic and conventional rats by using antibiotic resistance markers and specific probe or primer based methods

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Brockmann, Elke ^a   Jacobsen, Bodil L ^b   Hertel, Christian ^c   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic PCR; Genetically modified organisms; Gnotobiotic rat; Intestinal tract; Lactococcus lactis; Monitoring studies; Proteinase gene; Specific probes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029762050     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(96)80046-4     Document Type: Article

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