Isolation and molecular identification of lactic acid bacteria and Bifidobacterium spp. from faeces of the blue-fronted Amazon parrot in Brazil

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 497-503

  Allegretti, L ^a   Revolledo, L ^a   Astolfi Ferreira, C S ^a   Chacon J L ^a   Martins, L M ^a   Seixas, G H F ^b   Ferreira, A J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fundac a tildo Neotro pica do Brasil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Blue fronted Amazon parrot; Faeces; Lactic acid bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME DNA;

AMAZONA; AMAZONA AESTIVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BRAZIL; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ALIMENTARIUS; LACTOBACILLUS AMYLOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS CORYNIFORMIS; LACTOBACILLUS FRUTOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS HALOTERANS; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; LACTOBACILLUS MINOR; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SANFRANCISCENSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS CREMORIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIOCOCCUS PENTOSACEUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLALES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; LACTOBACILLALES; PARROTS; PROBIOTICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84907031267     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0082     Document Type: Article

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