Molecular profiling of the Clostridium leptum subgroup in human fecal microflora by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and clone library analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5232-5238

  Shen, Jian ^a   Zhang, Baorang ^b   Wei, Guifang ^a   Pang, Xiaoyan ^a   Wei, Hua ^a   Li, Min ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Jia, Wei ^a   Zhao, Liping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA;

CLONE LIBRARY ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); HUMAN FECES; HUMAN GUT;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

BACTERIUM; CHILD; CLONE; ELECTROKINESIS; FECES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CLONE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LEPTUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FECES; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM LEPTUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; SUBDOLIGRANULUM VARIABILE;

EID: 33747364002     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00151-06     Document Type: Article

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