Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1199-1204

  Robertson, Bronwyn R ^a   O'Rourke, Jani L ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a   Vandamme, Peter ^b   On, Stephen L W ^c   Fox, James G ^d   Lee, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER; MOUSE; MUCISPIRILLUM SCHAEDLERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLAGELLA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; GENTIAN VIOLET; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC STRAIGHT, CURVED, AND HELICAL RODS; HELICOBACTER; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCUS; PHENAZINES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; DEFERRIBACTERES; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; HELICOBACTER; MAMMALIA; MUCISPIRILLUM SCHAEDLERI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 19544388278     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63472-0     Document Type: Article

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