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Diversity of human-associated Methanobrevibacter smithii isolates revealed by multispacer sequence typing.
Current microbiology - 1 Jun 2015
Nkamga Vanessa D, Huynh Hong T T, Aboudharam Gérard, Ruimy Raymond, Drancourt Michel
Abstract excerpt
Methanobrevibacter smithii is the main archaea in human, detoxifying molecular hydrogen resulting from anaerobic bacteria fermentations into gaseous methane. Its identification relies on gene sequencing, but no method is available to discriminate among genetic variants of M. smithii. Here, we developed a multispacer sequence typing (MST) for genotyping the genetic variants of M. smithii. Four intergenic spacers...
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