Sunlight-induced propagation of the lysogenic phage encoding cholera toxin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 4795-4801

  Faruque, Shah M ^a,c   Asadulghani, ^a   Rahman, M Mostafizur ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^b   Sack, David A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CHOLERA TOXIN; KANAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SALINITY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENVIRONMENT; LYSOGENY; PROVIRUSES; RABBITS; SUNLIGHT; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033914615     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.8.4795-4801.2000     Document Type: Article

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