Effective recovery of bacterial DNA and percent-guanine-plus-cytosine- based analysis of community structure in the gastrointestinal tract of broiler chickens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4084-4088

  Apajalahti, Juha H A ^a   Särkilahti, Laura K ^a   Mäki, Brita R E ^a   Pekka Heikkinen, J ^a   Nurminen, Päivi H ^a   Holben, William E ^b  

^a DANISCO A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CECUM; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA DETERMINATION; EXTRACTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONATION; ILEUM; INOCULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0344625364     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.4084-4088.1998     Document Type: Article

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