Identification of a novel, invasive, not-yet-cultivated Treponema sp. in the large intestine of pigs by PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA gene

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4537-4540

  Mølbak, Lars ^a   Klitgaard, Kirstine ^a   Jensen, Tim K ^a   Fossi, Marja ^b   Boye, Mette ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDATUS TREPONEMA SUIS; COLITIS; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LARGE INTESTINE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; SWINE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA BRYANTII; TYPE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; COLON; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS;

SPIROCHAETALES; SUS SCROFA; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA SP.;

EID: 33845593292     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01537-06     Document Type: Article

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