Consumption of Camembert cheese stimulates commensal enterococci in healthy human intestinal microbiota

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-192

  Firmesse, Olivier ^a   Rabot, Sylvie ^a   Bermúdez Humarán, Luis G ^a   Corthier, Gérard ^a   Furet, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Camembert cheese; Enterococcus sp.; Gastrointestinal tract; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEESE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD INTAKE; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VOLUNTEER;

CHEESE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 35448935288     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00933.x     Document Type: Article

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