The ignored diversity: Complex bacterial communities in intensive care units revealed by 16S pyrosequencing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Oberauner, Lisa ^a,b   Zachow, Christin ^a,b   Lackner, Stefan ^c   Högenauer, Christoph ^c   Smolle, Karl Heinz ^c   Berg, Gabriele ^b  

^a AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84875141261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01413     Document Type: Article

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