Identification of four phage resistance plasmids from Lactococcus lactis subsp, cremoris HO2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1540-1547

  Forde, Amanda ^a   Daly, Charles ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEESE; DAIRY INDUSTRY; GENE ISOLATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032964415     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1540-1547.1999     Document Type: Article

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