A short-oligonucleotide microarray that allows improved detection of gastrointestinal tract microbial communities

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Seventeen reference strains used to test the specificity of microarrays

Taxon	Source^a
Bacteroides distasonis	DSMZ 20701
Bacteroides fragilis	DSMZ 1396
Bifidobacterium adolescentis	DSMZ 20083
Bifidobacterium angulatum	DSMZ 20098
Bifidobacterium bifidum	DSMZ 20082
Bifidobacterium infantis	DSMZ 20088
Bifidobacterium longum	DSMZ 20219
Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum	DSMZ 20243
Clostridium leptum	DSMZ 753
Enterococcus faecium	CECT 410
Escherichia coli	CECT 434
Lactobacillus acidophilus	DSMZ 20079
Lactobacillus gasseri	DSMZ 20243
Lactobacillus johnsonii	FI 9785
Thermus thermophilus	DSMZ 579
Ruminococcus obeum	ATCC 29174
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (SL1344)	[52]

^aDSMZ, Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany; ATCC, American Type Culture Collection, Middlesex, UK; CECT, Spanish Type Culture Collection, Valencia, Spain; FI, Institute of Food Research Culture Collection, Norwich, UK.

ISSN: 1471-2180