METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO DETECT MICROBES IN FECAL SAMPLES

摘要

The invention provides a method to test for the presence of a microbe in a fecal sample, a method to determine if the population of a gastrointestinal microbe within an organism increases or decreases over time, a method to test the efficacy of a vaccine against a Helicobacter bacterium, kits, and a nucleic acid segment that specifically hybridizes to H. pylori species found in humans.