DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4296-4301.2003
ABSTRACT
Eighty-nine Bifidobacterium strains from 26 species were identified and classified to the species level with an enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR approach. We demonstrated that ERIC-PCR is useful for a phylogenetic and taxonomical analysis but as well as for a species composition analysis of mixed bifidobacterial cultures isolated from dairy products and other environments.
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- Received 2 December 2002.
- Accepted 2 April 2003.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Mailing address: Nestlé Research Center, Route du Jourat 57, Vers-Chez-Les-Blanc, 1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland. Phone: 41-21-785-8901. Fax: 41-21-785-8925. E-mail: ralf.zink{at}rdls.nestle.com.
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- Species-specific ERIC-PCR patterns.
- Identification of isolated Bifidobacterium strains.
- ERIC-PCR fingerprinting of simple mixed-strain communities.
- Specificity of the amplification method.
- Suitability of ERIC-PCR for a quantification of various bifidobacterial species in various food systems.
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