Microbiological and genetic analysis of probiotic products licensed for medicinal purposes

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Szajewska, Hanna ^a   Fordymacka, Anna ^b   Bardowski, Jacek ^c   Górecki, Roman K ^c   Mrukowicz, Jacek Z ^d   Banaszkiewicz, Aleksandra ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^d Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Genotypic analysis; Lactobacilli

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CELL DENSITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUG QUALITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; LACTOBACILLUS; LAW; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLATE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FOOD LABELING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 4644229373     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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