Diversity of Bacteroides fragilis strains in their capacity to recover phages from human and animal wastes and from fecally polluted wastewatre

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1772-1776

  Puig, Anna ^a   Queralt, Nuria ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a   Araujo, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; DETECTION METHOD; FECES; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEWAGE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032942011     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1772-1776.1999     Document Type: Article

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