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Specificity of a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Marker for Human Feces |
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| Authors: | C Andrew Carson Jessica M Christiansen Helen Yampara-Iquise Verel W Benson Claire Baffaut Jerri V Davis Robert R Broz William B Kurtz Wendi M Rogers and William H Fales |
| Abstract: | A bacterial primer set, known to produce a 542-bp amplicon specific for Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, generated this product in PCR with 1 ng of extracted DNA from 92% of 25 human fecal samples, 100% of 20 sewage samples, and 16% of 31 dog fecal samples. The marker was not detected in 1 ng of fecal DNA from 61 cows, 35 horses, 44 pigs, 24 chickens, 29 turkeys, and 17 geese. |
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