Identification of four loci isolated from two Streptococcus thermophilus phage genomes responsible for mediating bacteriophage resistance

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 271-277

  Stanley, Elizabeth ^a   Walsh, Linda ^a   Van Der Zwet, Anneke ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Phage encoded resistance; Replication; Streptococcus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0033986796     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00601-1     Document Type: Article

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