Relative abundance of Bacteroides spp. in stools and wastewaters as determined by hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2882-2893

  Hong, Pei Ying ^a   Wu, Jer Horng ^b   Liu, Wen Tso ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REACTION KINETICS; RNA; WASTEWATER;

FLUORESCENCE HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PRIMER EXTENSION;

BACTERIA;

GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; WASTEWATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES CACCAE; BACTEROIDES EGGERTHII; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES MASSILIENSIS; BACTEROIDES NORDII; BACTEROIDES PYOGENES; BACTEROIDES SALYERSIAE; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; DNA TEMPLATE; FECES; FECES MICROFLORA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HIERARCHICAL OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PRIMER EXTENSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SWINE; WASTE WATER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SWINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES SP.; BOVINAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 43049105731     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02568-07     Document Type: Article

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