Construction of mini-Tn10luxABcam/Ptac-ATS and its use for developing a bacteriophage that transduces bioluminescence to Escherichia coli O157:H7

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 285-289

  Waddell, Thomas E ^a   Poppe, Cornelius ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Bioluminescence; Escherichia coli O157:H7

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DECANAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; INFECTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

COLIPHAGES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 0033988451     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00603-5     Document Type: Article

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