Identification and characterization of a newly isolated shiga toxin 2- converting phage from shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4100-4107

  Watarai, Masahisa ^a,b   Sato, Toshio ^a   Kobayashi, Midori ^a   Shimizu, Takeshi ^a   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a   Tobe, Toru ^b   Sasakawa, Chihiro ^b   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; JAPAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031661880     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.9.4100-4107.1998     Document Type: Article

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