Effect of antibiotics on the bacterial population of the rabbit caecum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-153

  Abecia, Leticia ^a,b   Fondevila, Manuel ^a   Balcells, Joaquim ^a   Edwards, Joan E ^c   Newbold, C James ^c   McEwan, Neil R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacterial diversity; Caecum; DNA sequence analysis; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CECUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BUTYRATES; CECUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34447514311     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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