Monitoring the cell number and viability of Lactobacillus helveticus GCL1001 in human feces by PCR methods

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 125-130

  Saito, Yasuo ^a   Sakamoto, Mitsuo ^b   Takizawa, Satoru ^a   Benno, Yoshimi ^b  

^a Glico Dairy Products Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feces; Lactobacillus helveticus; Nested reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Real time polymerase chain reaction; Viability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS;

EID: 0842309172     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00951-0     Document Type: Article

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