Polyphasic taxonomic analysis of Bifidobacterium animalis and Bifidobacterium lactis reveals relatedness at the subspecies level: Reclassification of Bifidobacterium animalis as Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis subsp. nov and Bifidobacterium lactis as Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis subsp. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1137-1143

  Masco, Liesbeth ^a   Ventura, Marco ^b,d   Zink, Ralf ^b,e   Huys, Geert ^a   Swings, Jean ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; MILK; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GROEL PROTEIN; HUMANS; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS;

EID: 4344573091     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.03011-0     Document Type: Article

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