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Each unit record represents one journal article or citation. Each record is made up of various fields such as Author, Title, Source, MeSH, Year, Abstract, etc. When a user types terms into the computer, the system searches the unit record fields for those terms. Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd., Shiga, Japan. Nucleotide sequences of the spacer region between 16S and 23S rRNA genes of 11 Lactobacillus strains were identified by analysis of PCR products.