Chemostat enrichments of human feces with resistant starch are selective for adherent butyrate-producing clostridia at high dilution rates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 4212-4221

  Sharp, R ^a   MacFarlane, G T ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMYLASE; BUTYRIC ACID; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; STARCH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BIOFILM; CHEMOSTAT; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FECES; FERMENTATION; GLYCOCALYX; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE;

AMYLASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOFILMS; BUTYRATES; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FECES; FERMENTATION; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0033771013     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.10.4212-4221.2000     Document Type: Article

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