Gut-inhabiting bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes: Role in calcium oxalate urolithiasis

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 418-424

  Mittal, Rama Devi ^a   Kumar, Ritu ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; FORMIC ACID; FORMYL COENZYME A TRANSFERASE; OXALIC ACID; OXALYL COENZYME A DECARBOXYLASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIET; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; OXALOBACTER FORMIGENES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UROLITHIASIS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM OXALATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; OXALATES; OXALOBACTER FORMIGENES; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 3042807870     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/0892779041271706     Document Type: Review

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