Phages infecting Vibrio vulnificus are abundant and diverse in oysters (Crassostrea virginica) collected from the Gulf of Mexico

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 346-351

  DePaola, Angelo ^a   Motes, Miles L ^a   Chan, Amy M ^b   Suttle, Curtis A ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ABUNDANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OYSTER; PHAGE DIVERSITY; PHAGE-HOST RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; SEASHORE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

GULF OF MEXICO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; INVERTEBRATA; MIRIDAE; MYOVIRIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; OSTREIDAE; PODOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; STYLOVIRIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRBIO; VIRBIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIRBIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0031975410     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.346-351.1998     Document Type: Article

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