Rapid identification of human intestinal bifidobacteria by 16S rRNA-targeted species- and group-specific primers

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-121

  Matsuki, Takahiro ^a,b   Watanabe, Koichi ^a   Tanaka, Ryuichiro ^a   Oyaizu, Hiroshi ^b  

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bifidobacterium; Human intestinal flora; Identification; Polymerase chain reaction primer

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FECES; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANGULATUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CATENULATUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM PSEUDOCATENULATUM;

EID: 0031757493     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00370-X     Document Type: Article

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