Culture-independent analysis of desulfovibrios in the human distal colon of healthy, colorectal cancer and polypectomized individuals

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-221

  Scanlan, Pauline D ^a,b,c   Shanahan, Fergus ^a,b   Marchesi, Julian R ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Cancer; Culture independent analysis; DsrAB gene; Human gut; Sulphate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; DOMINANCE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; DISSIMILARITY SULPHITE REDUCTASE GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIODIVERSITY; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

DESULFOVIBRIO PIGER; DESULFOVIBRIO SP.; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 67650458816     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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