Prevalence of broad-host-range lytic bacteriophages of Sphaerotilus natans, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 575-580

  Jensen, Ellen C ^a   Schrader, Holly S ^b   Rieland, Brenda ^a   Thompson, Thomas L ^b   Lee, Kit W ^b   Nickerson, Kenneth W ^b   Kokjohn, Tyler A ^b,c  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPHAEROTILUS NATANS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031912436     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.575-580.1998     Document Type: Article

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