Shiga-toxin-converting bacteriophages

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 687-695

  Schmidt, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EHEC; Escherichia coli; Lambdoid bacteriophage; Shiga toxin; STEC; Stx converting bacteriophages

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTOTOXIN; LIDAPRIM; MITOMYCIN C; TRIMETHOPRIM; VEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0034813874     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(01)01249-9     Document Type: Review

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