Oligonucleotide probes that detect quantitatively significant groups of butyrate-producing bacteria in human feces

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 4320-4324

  Hold, Georgina L ^a,c   Schwiertz, Andreas ^b,d   Aminov, Rustam I ^a   Blaut, Michael ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d SymbioHerborn Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PROBES; RNA;

HUMAN FECES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BUTYRIC ACID; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERUM HALLII; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FECES; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; ROSEBURIA INTESTINALIS; SAMPLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BUTYRATES; EUBACTERIUM; FECES; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUBACTERIUM HALLII; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; MICROBIOTA; ROSEBURIA; ROSEBURIA INTESTINALIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037478707     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4320-4324.2003     Document Type: Article

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