Polynucleotide probes that target a hypervariable region of 16S rRNA genes to identify bacterial isolates corresponding to bands of community fingerprints

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1045-1049

  Heuer, Holger ^a   Hartung, Kathrin ^a   Wieland, Gabriele ^a   Kramer, Ina ^b   Smalla, Kornelia ^a,c  

^a Biol Ba Land und F   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033057111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1045-1049.1999     Document Type: Article

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