Evaluation of strain-specific primers for identification of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-125

  Endo, Akihito ^a   Aakko, Juhani ^a   Salminen, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fingerprinting; Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG; Phage related gene; Probiotic strain; Strain specific primers

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVALUATION RESEARCH; GENE TARGETING; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; NONHUMAN; PHAGE RELATED GENE TARGETING SYSTEM METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSPOSASE GENE TARGETING SYSTEM METHOD;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS;

EID: 84870371144     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12015     Document Type: Article

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