Molecular monitoring of the fecal microbiota of healthy human subjects during administration of lactulose and Saccharomyces boulardii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5990-5997

  Vanhoutte, Tom ^a   De Preter, Vicky ^c   De Brandt, Evie ^a   Verbeke, Kristin ^c   Swings, Jean ^a,b   Huys, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; GENES; YEAST;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); HUMAN GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

LACTULOSE; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH IMPACT; MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUGAR; SYMBIOSIS; YEAST;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM LITUSEBURENSE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTULOSE; MALE; PROBIOTICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SACCHAROMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM LITUSEBURENSE; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII;

EID: 33748780623     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00233-06     Document Type: Article

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