Application and evaluation of the phage resistance- and bacteriocin- encoding plasmid pMRC01 for the improvement of dairy starter cultures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1434-1440

  Coakley, Mairéad ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b   Ross, R Paul ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DAIRY PRODUCT; GENETIC MARKER; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LACTOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 0030944353     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1434-1440.1997     Document Type: Article

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