Identification and quantitation of mucosal and faecal desulfovibrios using real time polymerase chain reaction

Gut

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-529

  Fite, A ^b   Macfarlane, G T ^b   Cummings, J H ^b   Hopkins, M J ^b   Kong, S C ^b   Furrie, E ^b   Macfarlane, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 1642396651     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.031245     Document Type: Article

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