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We isolated a total of 49 strains of lactic acid bacteria from the faeces of healthy donors. The species in that group were determined as L. plantarum (11 strains), L. casei (11 strains), L. rhamnosus (seven strains), L. fermentum (seven strains), L. gasseri (six strains), L. delbrueckii ssp. lactis (four strains), L. salivarius (two strains), and L. acidophilus (one strain). Genotyping at strain level was performed using random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with endonucleases ApaI and XhoI and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) with enzymes XhoI and TaqI. The main objective was the comparison of three molecular typing techniques: AFLP, PFGE and RAPD in their applicability to determine the genetic diversity among the isolates. RAPD was the easiest, comparatively rapid and fairly strain discriminative tool. PFGE was the most laborious method but producing the most stable profiles with satisfactory discriminatory power. AFLP proved to be the most discriminative approach for typing of the strains. AFLP could differentiate strains with the same PFGE profiles. Therefore, AFLP successfully could replace the labor consuming PFGE. The specially developed AFLP and PFGE proved very high potential to evaluate the strain diversity of Lactobacillus spp. with human origin.
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Dimitrov, Z.P., Minkova, S. & Michaylova, M. Comparative evaluation of three molecular typing methods in their applicability to differentiate Lactobacillus strains with human origin. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 24, 1305–1312 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-007-9603-4
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