Characterization of a Shiga toxin-encoding temperate bacteriophage of Shigella sonnei

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 7588-7595

  Strauch, E ^a   Lurz, R ^a   Beutin, L ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COLIPHAGES; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035189614     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.12.7588-7595.2001     Document Type: Article

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