Fatty acids synthesized by oral treponemes in chemically defined media

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-76

  Wyss, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institut für Orale Biologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular fatty acid; Chemically defined medium; Oral Treponema; Periodontal disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OMIZ W68 CULTURE MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BUTYRATES; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CULTURE MEDIA; FATTY ACIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREPONEMA;

TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA LECITHINOLYTICUM; TREPONEMA MALTOPHILUM; TREPONEMA PECTINOVORUM; TREPONEMA SOCRANSKII;

EID: 33847003832     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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