Nitrate-reducing bacteria on rat tongues

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 924-930

  Li, Hong ^a,e   Duncan, Callum ^a,b   Townend, John ^a   Killham, Kenneth ^a   Smith, Lorna M ^b   Johnston, Peter ^a   Dykhuizen, Roelf ^b   Kelly, Denise ^c   Golden, Michael ^b   Benjamin, Nigel ^d   Leifert, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DENITRIFICATION; FUSOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MORPHOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUSOBACTERIUM; PASTEURELLA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 0031019240     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.924-930.1997     Document Type: Article

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