Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Publication Date
9-2003
Volume
69
Issue
9
Disciplines
Biology | Life Sciences
Abstract
The aim of the present work was to compare the efficacies and levels of selectivity of different culture-dependent and -independent methods for analyzing bifidobacteria in human stool samples. The three different culture media used here significantly differed from each other, particularly with regard to the recovery of Bifidobacterium adolescentis. Bifidobacterium medium failed to recover B. adolescentis; Beerens medium recovered some B. adolescentis organisms (17% of total bifidobacteria), whereas tomato-Eugon medium recovered mainly B. adolescentis organisms (58% of total bifidobacteria). A culture-independent method that combines GC fractionation of bacterial community DNA and 16S rRNA sequencing indicated that B. adolescentis organisms accounted for 85% of all bifidobacteria. Methodological biases, such as those described in this paper, should be taken into account in interpreting earlier studies and designing future experiments.
DOI
10.1128/AEM.69.9.5731-5735.2003
Recommended Citation
Apajalahti, Juha H. A.; Kettunen, Anu; Nurminen, Päivi H.; Jatila, Hanna; and Holben, William E., "Selective Plating Underestimates Abundance and Shows Differential Recovery of Bifidobacterial Species from Human Feces" (2003). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 110.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/biosci_pubs/110