Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of the bacterium associated with Whipple's disease and determination of the 16S-23S ribosomal intergenic spacer sequence

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1078-1082

  Maiwald, Matthias ^a   Ditton, Hans Jürgen ^a   Von Herbay, Axel ^a   Rainey, Frederick A ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOMONADACEAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0029817508     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-46-4-1078     Document Type: Article

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