Identification of Lactobacillus isolates from the gastrointestinal tract, silage, and yoghurt by 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer region sequence comparisons

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4264-4267

  Tannock, G W ^a   Tilsala Timisjarvi, A ^b   Rodtong, S ^c   Ng, J ^a   Munro, K ^a   Alatossava, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; YOGHURT;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; GENE SEQUENCE; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032829474     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4264-4267.1999     Document Type: Article

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