Prevalence of an unidentified helicobacter species in laboratory mice and its distribution in the hepatobiliary system and gastrointestinal tract

Experimental Animals

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-116

  Yamanaka, Hitoki ^a   Arita, Misato ^a   Oi, Ryunosuke ^a   Ohsawa, Makiko ^a   Mizushima, Megumi ^a   Takagi, Toshikazu ^a,b   Kubo, Noriaki ^a   Yamamoto, Naoto ^a   Takemoto, Takahira ^a   Ohsawa, Kazutaka ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan SLC Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Helicobacter sp. MIT 01 6451; Laboratory mice; Organ distribution; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CECUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER GANMANI; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ILEUM; JAPAN; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BILIARY TRACT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; HELICOBACTER GANMANI; HELICOBACTER SP.; MUS;

EID: 84876774909     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.62.109     Document Type: Article

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