High prevalence of Helicobacter species detected in laboratory mouse strains by multiplex PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and pyrosequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3781-3788

  Nilsson, Hans Olof ^a   Ouis, Ibn Sina ^a   Stenram, Unne ^a   Ljungh, Åsa ^a   Moran, Anthony P ^b   Wadström, Torkel ^a   Abu Al Soud, Waleed ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROPATHY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER BILIS; HELICOBACTER GANMANI; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER RODENTIUM; HELICOBACTER TYPHLONIUS; HEPATITIS; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SCID MOUSE; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FECES; HELICOBACTER; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STOMACH;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLEXISPIRA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER BILIS; HELICOBACTER GANMANI; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELICOBACTER RODENTIUM; HELICOBACTER SP.; HELICOBACTER TYPHLONIUS; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 3843113405     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3781-3788.2004     Document Type: Article

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