Fluorescent hybridisation combined with flow cytometry and hybridisation of total RNA to analyse the composition of microbial communities in human faeces using 16S rRNA probes

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-245

  Rigottier Gois, Lionel ^a   Le Bourhis, Anne Gaëlle ^a   Gramet, Geneviève ^a   Rochet, Violaine ^a   Doré, Joël ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Dot blot hybridisation; Flow cytometry; Fluorescent in situ hybridisation; Human fecal microbiota

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FECES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FUSOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROFLORA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ATOPOBIUM; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FUSOBACTERIUM; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 0037445321     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(02)00416-6     Document Type: Article

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