Selective enumeration of Bacteroides vulgatus and B. distasonis organisms in the predominant human fecal flora by using monoclonal antibodies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 735-738

  Corthier, G ^a   Muller, M C ^a   L'Haridon, R ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0030058152     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.2.735-738.1996     Document Type: Article

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