Characterisation of prototype Nurmi cultures using culture-based microbiological techniques and PCR-DGGE

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 268-277

  Waters, Sinéad M ^a   Murphy, Richard A ^a   Power, Ronan F G ^b  

^a Alltech Ireland   (Ireland)

^b ALLTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DGGF; Nurmi; Poultry; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCES; AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES; BREVIBACTERIUM; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CITROBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; KLEBSIELLA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; LACTOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA; PECTOBACTERIUM; PEDIOCOCCUS; PLATING MEDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; PROTEUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CECUM; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBIOTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ACTINOMYCES; AVES; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CITROBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; KLEBSIELLA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS MUCOSAE; LACTOBACILLUS PONTIS; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; LACTOBACILLUS SUNTORYEUS; LACTOBACILLUS VAGINALIS; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS CASEI; PANTOEA; PECTOBACTERIUM; PEDIOCOCCUS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); SALMONELLA; SERRATIA;

EID: 33746538556     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2006.04.028     Document Type: Article

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