Clustering of Saccharomyces boulardii strains within the species S. cerevisiae using molecular typing techniques

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 521-530

  Mitterdorfer, G ^a   Mayer, H K ^a   Kneifel, W ^a   Viernstein, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; YEAST;

CLUSTERINGS; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; DNA POLYMERASE; GENOTYPING; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMLY AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; S.CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES; SPECIES SPECIFICS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

RIBOSOME DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036380987     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2002.01710.x     Document Type: Article

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