Effects of age and region on fecal microflora in elderly subjects living in Bama, Guangxi, China

Current Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Xu, Wentao ^a   Ibrahim, Salam A ^b   Jin, Junhua ^a   Feng, Jiannan ^a   Jiang, Jingli ^c   Meng, Jianjun ^d   Ren, Fazheng ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mengniu Diary (Beijing) Co Ltd   (China)

^d Government of BaMa Yao Autonomous County   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; CHINA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FECES MICROFLORA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; PREVOTELLA;

EID: 79151472879     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9676-4     Document Type: Article

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