Screening for Bacillus isolates in the broiler gastrointestinal tract

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 968-978

  Barbosa, Teresa M ^a   Serra, Cláudia R ^a   La Ragione, Roberto M ^b   Woodward, Martin J ^b   Henriques, Adriano O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DNA; ETHANOL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENES; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PATHOLOGY; RNA;

ANIMAL PROBIOTICS; FOOD SPOILAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS;

MICROORGANISMS;

ALCOHOL; PLASMID DNA; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD SPOILAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; INTESTINE FLORA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; CHICKENS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ETHANOL; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CLAUSII; BACILLUS FIRMUS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GALLUS GALLUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; PUMILUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 13644265569     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.968-978.2005     Document Type: Article

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