Isogenic lysogens of diverse Shiga toxin 2-encoding bacteriophages produce markedly different amounts of Shiga toxin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6710-6714

  Wagner, Patrick L ^a   Acheson, David W K ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LYSOGENIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; SUPERINFECTION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; COLIPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0032701632     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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