| Literature DB >> 17446674 |
Ryoko Kibe1, Mitsuo Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yokota, Yoshimi Benno.
Abstract
Mouse intestinal bacteria (MIB) is a new operational taxonomic unit (OTU) belonging to the Bacteroides subgroup in the Cytophaga-Flavobacter-Bacteroides (CFB) phylum recently found in the intestine of mice, rats and humans. However, their characters are still unknown since they have not yet been isolated by culture. To understand their habitat characteristics in intestinal tracts, the quantification assays of MIB were established using MIB group-specific primers. The MIB population in the intestine was evaluated as a percentage of the number of 16S rRNA gene copy of MIB. A real-time PCR assay using group specific primers showed the fluctuation of MIB inhabitancy and revealed that the MIB population in the small intestine of mice was significantly lower than the large intestinal contents. Moreover, MIB was found in human feces though the number was lower than in murine. This assay using group-specific primers revealed new information about host-preference of MIB.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17446674 DOI： 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03916.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbiol Immunol ISSN： 0385-5600 Impact factor: 1.955