Construction of specific erythromycin resistance mutations in the temperate lactococcal bacteriophage TP901-1 and their use in studies of phage biology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2439-2441

  Koch, Birgit ^a   Christiansen, Bettina ^b   Evison, Tim ^a   Vogensen, Finn K ^a   Hammer, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030908530     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2439-2441.1997     Document Type: Article

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