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Diversity of Intestinal Clostridium coccoides Group in the Japanese Population, as Demonstrated by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Kurakawa Takashi, Ogata Kiyohito, Matsuda Kazunori, Tsuji Hirokazu, Kubota Hiroyuki, Takada Toshihiko, Kado Yukiko, Asahara Takashi, Takahashi Takuya, Nomoto Koji
Abstract excerpt
We used sensitive rRNA-targeted reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) to quantify the Clostridium coccoides group, which is a major anaerobic population in the human intestine. For this purpose, the C. coccoides group was classified into 3 subgroups and 19 species for expediency in accordance with the existing database, and specific primers were newly developed to evaluate them. Population levels of...
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