Development of a strain-specific real-time PCR assay for enumeration of a probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri in chicken feed and intestine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sattler, Verity Ann ^a   Mohnl, Michaela ^b   Klose, Viviana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b BIOMIN RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIRD; BROILER; CECUM; CHICKEN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DRUG SCREENING; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTESTINE FLORA; JEJUNUM; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; INTESTINES; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; PROBIOTICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84896352895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090208     Document Type: Article

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