Correlations of fecal bacterial communities with age and living region for the elderly living in Bama, Guangxi, China

Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 186-192

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Qiao, Xuewei ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Zhang, Xiaoying ^a   Jiang, Jingli ^b   Hao, Yanling ^a   Ren, Fazheng ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

age; DGGE; elderly people; intestinal microflora; living region; redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DESULFOVIBRIO;

EID: 79955746963     PISSN: 12258873     EISSN: 12258873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-011-0405-x     Document Type: Article

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