A DNA probe for the detection and identification of Bacillus sporothermodurans using the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region and phylogenetic analysis of some field isolates of Bacillus which form highly heat resistant spores

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 398-407

  De Silva, Shyama ^a   Petterson, Bertil ^b   De Muro, Marilena Aquino ^a   Priest, Fergus G ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacillus sporothermodurans; Milk; Phylogeny; rRNA spacer regions; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ALANINE TRANSFER RNA; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA PROBE; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACILLI; BACILLUS SPOROTHERMODURANS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031711216     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80049-0     Document Type: Article

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