Two groups of bacteriophages infecting Streptococcus thermophilus can be distinguished on the basis of mode of packaging and genetic determinants for major structural proteins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3246-3253

  Le Marrec, Claire ^a,d   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a   Walsh, Linda ^a   Stanley, Elizabeth ^a   Vlegels, Ellie ^b   Moineau, Sylvain ^c   Heinze, Petra ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald ^a   Fayard, Blandine ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Givaudan SA   (Switzerland)

^c Prod and Proc Devmt Cultures Grp   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA RESTRICTION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030749539     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.8.3246-3253.1997     Document Type: Article

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