Quantification of the flavonoid-degrading bacterium Eubacterium ramulus in human fecal samples with a species-specific oligonucleotide hybridization probe

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3705-3709

  Simmering, Rainer ^b   Kleessen, Brigitta ^a   Blaut, Michael ^a,b  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EUBACTERIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

EUBACTERIUM RAMULUS;

EID: 0032793537     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3705-3709.1999     Document Type: Article

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