How free of germs is germ-free? Detection of bacterial contamination in a germ free mouse unit

Gut Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 225-233

  Fontaine, Clinton A ^a   Skorupski, Anna M ^b   Vowles, Chriss J ^a   Anderson, Natalie E ^a   Poe, Sara A ^a   Eaton, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Germ free; Gnotobiotic; Mice; PCR; Test verification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMFREE MOUSE; GNOTOBIOTICS; GRAM STAINING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FECES; GERM-FREE LIFE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84944457787     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2015.1054596     Document Type: Article

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