Defective site-specific integration elements are present in the genome of virulent bacteriophage LL-H of Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1847-1851

  Mikkonen, Merja ^a   Dupont, Laurence ^b   Alatossava, Tapani ^a   Ritzenthaler, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UMR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DAIRY INDUSTRY; FERMENTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LL-H; BACTERIOPHAGE MV4; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII;

EID: 0029882472     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1847-1851.1996     Document Type: Article

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