Distribution of bifidobacterial species in human intestinal microflora examined with 16S rRNA-gene-targeted species-specific primers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4506-4512

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

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANGULATUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CATENULATUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM GALLICUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM INFANTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM BV. INFANTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM PSEUDOCATENULATUM; LACTOBACILLUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032878580     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4506-4512.1999     Document Type: Article

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