Resident bacterial flora in the skin of C57BL/6 mice housed under SPF conditions

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 588-591

  Tavakkol, Zarry ^a   Samuelson, Derrick ^b   DeLancey Pulcini, Elinor ^b   Underwood, Robert A ^a   Usui, Marcia L ^a   Costerton, J William ^c   James, Garth A ^b   Olerud, John E ^a   Fleckman, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77957718356     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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