Characterization of bacterial communities in feces from healthy elderly volunteers and hospitalized elderly patients by using real-time PCR and effects of antibiotic treatment on the fecal microbiota

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3575-3581

  Bartosch, Sabine ^a   Fite, Alemu ^a   Macfarlane, George T ^a,b   McMurdo, Marion E T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; GENES; PATIENT TREATMENT; RNA;

GENE COPIES; HOSPITALIZATION;

BACTERIA;

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; TRIMETHOPRIM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PREVOTELLA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINOCOCCUS; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, RRNA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CLOSTRIDIOFORME; DESULFOVIBRIO; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; MICROBIOTA; PREVOTELLA; RUMINOCOCCUS;

EID: 2942592005     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3575-3581.2004     Document Type: Article

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