Biocontrol of Escherichia coli O157 with O157-specific bacteriophages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3767-3773

  Kudva, Indira T ^a   Jelacic, Srdjan ^b   Tarr, Phillip I ^b   Youderian, Philip ^a   Hovde, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032851940     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3767-3773.1999     Document Type: Article

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