Bacterial diversity in the human gut

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2004, Pages 261-289

  MacFarlane, Sandra ^a   MacFarlane, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGING; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CECUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM;

EID: 3042834093     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(04)54010-8     Document Type: Article

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