New selective medium for selection of bifidobacteria from human feces

Anaerobe

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 469-471

  Ferraris, Laurent ^a   Aires, Julio ^a   Waligora Dupriet, Anne Judith ^a   Butel, Marie José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium; Human feces; Selective medium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FECES; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FECES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM;

EID: 77956062399     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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