Design of a phage-insensitive lactococcal dairy starter via sequential transfer of naturally occurring conjugative plasmids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4618-4622

  O'Sullivan, David ^a,b   Coffey, Aidan ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b   Hill, Colin ^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

CASEIN; LACTOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; FERMENTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE TRANSFER; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031764273     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4618-4622.1998     Document Type: Article

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