A unique and common restriction fragment pattern of the nucleotide sequences homologous to the genome of Vf33, a filamentous bacteriophage, in pandemic strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 O4:K68, and O1:K untypeable

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-236

  Chang, Bin ^a   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^b   Miyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Ogawa, Midori ^a   Horikawa, Kazumi ^c   Ogata, Kikuyo ^d   Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ^e   Taniguchi, Hatsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; O3:K6; Phage; Vf33; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLONE; CLONING VECTOR; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 0034669397     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00440-7     Document Type: Article

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