title: Identification and tracing of Bifidobacterium species by use of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequences.
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.
authors.affiliation: Nestlé Research Center, Route de Jourat 57, Vers-Chez-Les-Blanc, 1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Meylan
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zink
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001644:Bifidobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D002417:Cattle; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D003611:Dairy Products / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000382:microbiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity