Combined PCR-DGGE fingerprinting and quantitative-PCR indicates shifts in fecal population sizes and diversity of Bacteroides, bifidobacteria and Clostridium cluster IV in institutionalized elderly

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 44, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 440-446

  Zwielehner, Jutta ^a   Liszt, Kathrin ^a   Handschur, Michael ^a   Lassl, Cornelia ^a   Lapin, Alexander ^b   Haslberger, Alexander G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ageing; Bacteroides; Bifidobacteria; Clostridium; Feces; Microbiota; PCR DGGE; qPCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOME FOR THE AGED; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FECES; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049127999     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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