Diversity of Intestinal Clostridium coccoides Group in the Japanese Population, as Demonstrated by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR.

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 accord...

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Main Authors: Takashi Kurakawa, Kiyohito Ogata, Kazunori Matsuda, Hirokazu Tsuji, Hiroyuki Kubota, Toshihiko Takada, Yukiko Kado, Takashi Asahara, Takuya Takahashi, Koji Nomoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4441462?pdf=render