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PCR-based genomic fingerprinting by use of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus primers (ERIC-PCR) was evaluated for its use in fingerprinting DNA of mixed Gram-negative bacterial strains and BIOLOG Gram-negative (GN) microplate substrate communities. ERIC-PCR fingerprints of six different pure bacterial strains and a combined mixture of the strains were compared with fingerprints obtained by two more established methods: amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA) and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD-PCR). The ERIC-PCR fingerprint of the mixed strains was highly reproducible and was more species-specific and representative of the individual strain fingerprints than the ARDRA and RAPD-PCR fingerprints, respectively. ERIC-PCR fingerprinting of model and rhizosphere BIOLOG GN substrate communities also provided clearly distinguishable fingerprints. Results of this study suggest that ERIC-PCR represents a rapid and highly discriminating method for fingerprinting DNA of mixed Gram-negative bacterial strains and BIOLOG GN substrate communities.
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Received: 11 September 1998 / Accepted: 29 October 1998
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Di Giovanni, G., Watrud, L., Seidler, R. et al. Fingerprinting of Mixed Bacterial Strains and BIOLOG Gram-Negative (GN) Substrate Communities by Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Sequence-PCR (ERIC-PCR). Curr Microbiol 38, 217–223 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00006790
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00006790