Primers. Specific primers to identify L. garvieae, pLG-1 (59-CATAACAATG
AGAATCGC-39) and pLG-2 (59-GCACCCTCGCGGGTTG-39), were selected
by comparing the 16S rDNA sequence of L. garvieae (EMBL accession no.
X54262) (3) to other bacterial sequences by using the GCG (version 9.0-UNIX)
FastA program.