Mode of action of a lysostaphin-like bacteriolytic agent produced by Streptococcus zooepidemicus 4881

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4536-4541

  Simmonds, R S ^a   Pearson, L ^a   Kennedy, R C ^b   Tagg, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL VIABILITY; CROSS LINKING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DISRUPTION; OPTICAL DENSITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

LACTOCOCCUS; RATTUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS RATTI;

EID: 0029909725     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.12.4536-4541.1996     Document Type: Article

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